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Dog walks in Hertfordshire

Trekosa finds dog walks in Hertfordshire to suit your dog and you. Tell us once what your dog finds hard, and we show you walks near you with the roads, stiles, livestock and council dog rules already marked, so the first surprise of the walk is not a field of ewes.

Done and live. We have measured every walk against the map: the footpaths and rights of way, what is underfoot, and what you will meet on the way. We have read the rules about dogs of all ten councils here. We cannot yet place ten councils' orders on the map, so a walk there says the rules are unknown rather than absent.

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Hemel HempsteadWatfordStevenageSt Albans10 km
Hertfordshire, from Ordnance Survey boundary data.

Three walks in Hertfordshire

Three of the walks in Hertfordshire, from those that start nearest the middle of its towns: an 8.7 km loop, a 5.2 km there and back and a 2.3 km one-way walk. How we pick them

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  • Bedwell loop8.7 km · 149 min · A loop
  • Near Watford (longer)5.2 km · 90 min · There and back
  • Near Hemel Hempstead (shortest)2.3 km · 40 min · One way

What the walks in Hertfordshire are like

We have measured 40,000 walks in Hertfordshire so far, each against the same public map data: where the path runs, what is beside it, the roads it meets and what is on the way. Each bar is the share of those walks the sentence is true of.

How far they go

Under 3 km: 36% of the walks in Hertfordshire, against 38% in the typical county we cover, and no row here differs by more.

Where the walks fall by length. The five bars add up to the whole, give or take the rounding.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
Under 3 km
36%
3 to 5 km
21%
5 to 8 km
18%
8 to 12 km
12%
Over 12 km
10%

What shape they are

A loop: 25% of the walks in Hertfordshire, against 17% in the typical county we cover.

A loop brings you back without repeating a step. There and back retraces the way out.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
A loop
25%
There and back the same way
45%
One way, ending somewhere else
28%

What is beside the path

Under trees for a third or more of the way: 61% of the walks in Hertfordshire, against 40% in the typical county we cover.

Shares of walks where the ground beside the path is a given kind for the stated part of the way.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
Under trees for a third or more of the way
61%
Beside water for a tenth or more
50%
On open access land for a third or more
8%
Through a park or green space for a third or more
16%
Beside crop fields for a third or more
90%
Beside farm grassland for half or more
57%
No farm grassland at all
5%
Off road for four fifths or more
12%
On roads or lanes for half or more
58%
Through built-up streets for half or more
4%

What might stop you

Never beside a busy road: 59% of the walks in Hertfordshire, against 71% in the typical county we cover.

Shares of walks with none of each thing on the way. A road counts when it runs within about fifteen metres of the path.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
Never beside a fast road
84%
Never beside a busy road
59%
No busy road to cross
60%
No stile, gate or cattle grid
86%
No steps
76%

What is on the way

Pass a dog-waste bin: 37% of the walks in Hertfordshire, against 17% in the typical county we cover.

Shares of walks that start by, or pass, each of these.

Walks thatShare of walks measured
Start where you can park, at a car park or on a minor road
81%
Pass a pub
39%
Pass a dog-waste bin
37%
Pass a public toilet
16%
Pass a drinking-water tap
2%
Pass a busy beauty spot
20%

Measured on 9 October 2026 from the map. How these figures are made

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Walks in Hertfordshire, for your dog

If you live in Hertfordshire, it is your home county, and every walk in it is free, for good. Tell the app what your dog finds hard and it shows you walks that suit, with anything that might stop you shown first.

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Anywhere in Great Britain, even with no signal.

Further is the Trekosa subscription: walks beyond your home county, and help on the walk itself. The OS Explorer map, 1:25,000, on any walk while you have signal. Press Offline on a walk and its map stays on your phone until you remove it, for when the signal goes. Drift off the path and you get a quiet buzz.

The first 250 households have it for good. After that, £4.99 a month or £34.99 a year.

What Further adds

Towns in Hertfordshire

What the walks near each of these are like, beside Hertfordshire as a whole, and how many pass the checks we run for five kinds of dog.

For your dog, town by town

Each town's walks, taken through the checks the app runs for one kind of dog: how many pass, and what stops the rest. The share is of every walk measured near each town.

For a nervous or reactive dog

For a dog scared of traffic

For a big dog, or two on the lead

For a short walk from the car

Where you may walk in Hertfordshire

In England you may walk on public rights of way, on open access land under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, and in woodland the Forestry Commission opens to the public. We hold all three for Hertfordshire, and a walk that leaves them is refused before you ever see it.

We checked Hertfordshire for military live-firing ground and found none. The military sites on the map here are barracks, cadet huts and indoor ranges, none of them open ground a walk could wander onto.

Council dog rules in Hertfordshire

A council can make an order saying where dogs must be on a lead or are not allowed at all. We read each order itself rather than the web page about it, and we say where we have not. This is where each council in Hertfordshire stands.

Not yet mapped means the order exists and we cannot yet place its boundaries, so a walk there says the rules are unknown rather than absent.

Every walk in Hertfordshire is checked against the same data as everywhere else we cover. See what we check and where it comes from.

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