We are on the combined butterfly and purple trails, as we can see from
the waymarks with a purple painted stripe beneath the
butterfly sign.
We are at the bench with blue paint
on
the left hand side of its back at the top of a track going off to the left, we
are at point 6 on our walk.
On the way back we shall come up to this bench on the track that goes off to the left and from then on be retracing our steps to The Woodman so it is worth having a look round and noting the way we have come.
It is a bit tricky here: we want to go about 10 yards left and then right.
A
blue and white stripe, topped by an arrow head, on a low post is on the right hand
side of the entrance to the track we want to take and
there is a blue and white stripe on a tree to the left
.
We head down the track and soon there is a combined butterfly and purple trail waymark.
We curve left and follow the track as takes us through ever-changing woodland and by the occasional bench. The track narrows but we are reassured by the occasional combined trail waymark pointing us straight on - ONLY when it points us straight on. When the butterfly waymark points right, we have come to the tricky bit where we need to leave the butterfly trail and carry straight on, on the purple trail.
When we come to the tricky bit where the combined butterfly and purple trail waymark points right, we have to be sure to leave the combined butterfly and purple trail and proceed on the purple-only trail:
we do NOT
follow the combined trail where it points us to the right and
where there is also a low bridleway waymark post
with its distinctive blue arrow and the letters bridleway etched in blue.
(If you do follow the butterfly trail and bridleway to the right, you come out on to Pembridge Lane a bit northwest of the Broxbourne Woods West Car Park. The butterfly trail goes on from there, bears south, crosses White Stubbs Lane and takes a huge loop through Wormley Wood and Bencroft Wood, gradually coming back up to where we joined it in Emanuel Pollards.)
Instead we DO go straight on where soon there is a waymark with only the purple stripe.
We have reached point 7 on our walk: we are leaving the butterfly trail.