For the return journey from Wareside to Hitchin we took the ‘pretty route’ so we could say we’d been through the location marked on the map as Cold Christmas. The name is reputed to come from a macabre local legend. The road took us through Nobland Green where a farm stands on the corner of a hard turn, and on to one of Hertfordshire’s several Rush Greens where there is some woodland, whether remnants of woods the green was cut from or not I don’t know. There’s nothing else there but the familiar Y shape where three roads meet, with the old green having lain in two of its arms.
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