The Red Cow

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Continuing our journey around some of the

local public houses I rode today along a disused railway line recently restored for cyclists and walkers from just at the end of the lane where I live The railway, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, to Dunstable in Bedfordshire, was opened in the year 1860 closing in 1965. I have lived in my bungalow when the line was still in operation. The Red Cow public house in Harpenden, Herts, as far as I can find out opened in the 19th century and serves a very nice meal. It is on a route restored by a charity named Sustrans (Google www.sustrans is you would like to find a traffic free route in the UK for a nice bike ride. With the daylight hours lengthening I will try to gert farther afield in the coming months. I hope you find this of interest. Best wishes, Harold

 

 

The Long Arm and Short Arm

Continuing our tour of the local public houses in Hertfordshire, I recently visited the village of Lemsford, which is just five miles from where I live.  The River Lea passes through the village on its way to London. I hope you can follow its course on this map. I tried to find the history of the Long Arm and Short Arm but failed to find any. Perhaps one of my bloggers knows about this, if so please send me a comment. After a nice meal in the pub I returned home on a cold winters day.