A COLCHESTER author with a penchant for walking – and walking some more - has published the fourth and final instalment of his best-selling book series.

Mark Russell has just released East of Lea: Walking The Western Boundary of Old Essex, which chronicles his journey around the county’s old western boundary.

It details his six-day saunter from Leamouth in London to Great Chesterton near Cambridge and takes in miles of canals, picturesque villages and chalky fields.

Along the way, Mark’s stroll also passed through Epping Forest, Waltham Abbey and Gilwell Park, and under the M25 and over the M11.

The paperback also describes his seventh day of walking to Haverhill, completing the circuit he started three years ago in his first book Walking The Stour.

Since then, he has also published Our Southern Shore: Walking the Essex Thames – from Shoeburyness to the River Lea and The Longest Path: Walking The Essex Coast.

His proud dad, Sir Bob Russell, said: “I believe Mark is probably the first person, ever, to have walked the entire boundary of the county of Essex.”

East of Lea, along with the rest of the book series, is available instore at Red Lion Books, in Colchester, and from redlionbooks.co.uk.