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Hello Bike Destroyer - no, I live in Old Street, but spent some formative hellish years in Gt Dunmow.
TBH, it wasn't a route that uses the kind of quiet lanes I usually go for, but they weren't too bad at that time (I left London at 7.15am, and was in Dunmow by 9.15am). I'll map it in a minute, so you can see the (lack of) elevation.
Depending on where you are, there are some quieter bits around Essex/Herts used by the TNRC sometimes - check the TNRC 2011 thread, post #14 for all the routes.
There's more constantly undulating stuff either around Epping Forest / Toot Hill in the south of Essex, or up near Thaxted to the north. My favourite stuff in Herts is over to the west, towards the Chilterns.
There are also endless networks of quiet 'agricultural' roads all across the band of Essex between Epping and Dunmow - you can go completely twighlight zone if you keep heading east or west off the A113/B184 (I think those are the right numbers, but essentially Chigwell to Dunmow).