From The Woodman, go through the gap in the hedge opposite “The Woodman” pub sign and head north through a short tunnel of trees into a field and then into woodland to pick up the National Nature Reserve Trail with its distinctive butterfly waymarks.
Go right on to the butterfly trail and follow it to West End Road.
Turn right and cross White Stubbs Lane into fields. Follow the butterfly trail until there is a choice of butterfly trails, one route going straight ahead, and the other diagonally left. Take the one diagonally left.
Go straight across Pembridge Road and follow the butterfly marks. The Trail joins a trail marked by posts with a purple painted groove under the butterfly marks. There is one tricky part: where a bench appears ahead and on the right of the path. As you look at the bench, there is blue paint on the left side of its back. Go up to the bench then go left for about 10 yards and then right. A low post with a white top marks the correct combined purple and butterfly trails.
Follow the direction of the combined waymark posts only when they point ahead. Ignore the one pointing right and carry straight on on the purple-only trail. Follow it to Broxbourne Woods West Car Park.
Follow the signs round the sculpture trail. Two low posts, each topped by a walking man in a white disk, mark the entrance.
Back at the West Car Park take the wide clear track, almost a road, alongside and to the left of the entrance to the sculpture trail.
Where a bench interrupts the straight track (the bench at the tricky bit described above), go right to retrace your steps to The Woodman: re-join the combined purple and butterfly trails, then the butterfly-only trail, then left at the wooden sign to The Woodman.
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