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Impassable part of Slow Way

John Cooper
I have not walked it, but I know part of it, having tried to include it as part of a cross country run. It is overgrown and I had to use adjacent fields, occasioning many bramble scratches and nettle stings. The review says to use ramblers.org yo to report it but I think your listing ought to have a place to note things like this, lest people set off and are blocked. FYI this is on Orcop Hill—Ross-on-Wye Orcros one I did report it to the council a year ago HENTLAND Restricted Byway 19 Town: HENTLAND Street id: 23231626 Path reference: HN19 From: C1234 Road and footpath HN9 at Grid Ref. SO5425 2757 west approx. 823 metres To: Junction with Restricted Byway HR7 at parish boundary at Grid Ref. SO5344 2758
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  • John Cooper

    That was better formatted when it left here

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  • Slow Ways Support

    Hi John, Thanks for this. Do you know a better route that you can suggest? 

    Dan

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  • Ross

    Hi John, I had a farm on my route at the weekend where it was unclear how to get through the farm yard as not sign posted. I completed a review and added a note about the issue in the comment.

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  • John Cooper

    The sunken lane which is too overgrown is circled, ending at Hentland House

    Alternative from Harewood End

     

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  • John Cooper
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    I should add that my proposed alternative starts on another public footpath slightly to the SE of the original on the A49, but then emerges into a field of crop, which was potato last year. The footpath crosses it and another field, totally impractical, even it you could find the official footpath signs, marked in blue. My alternate is off the footpath, skirts the field - still pretty rough, down a track, and emerges on the road. From there by road, reasonably quiet, to Hentland House.

    The other alternative is to join that road, below Harewood End Wood via the A49 which is a major road, very busy, but there is a pedestrian pavement on one side, just not very picturesque.

    It would be good to get the council to clear the original lane, it is supposed to be a Restricted Byway, maintainable by public expense, as in my original post

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  • Yorkie Christine

    I have a question along the same theme as this very old post.  I've been wondering whether to suggest alternatives to Shiyor one and Tadcaw one.  Shiyor one has only just been snailed and Tadcaw one hasn't been yet, in both cases because these routes were flagged for access.  The access issue in both cases is that at particular points the rights of way are not being maintained, so people can't actually walk the routes as plotted.  It seems that the best case scenario would be for pressure to be put on the landowners to reinstate/maintain the rights of way over their land, but I guess that's not the job of Slow Ways; so is it better to be pragmatic and simply suggest an alternative route?  Interested to hear people's views! 

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  • Cristie Moore

    It would be fab to get people's views.  From my perspective we can do a bit of both.  Leave the current routes as they are on the Slow Ways site which then highlights the access issues (unmaintained rights of way).  Plus, pragmatically add the alternative routes so that there are walkable, trusted routes in place.

    Dan and I keep talking about a workshop on rights of way and how to report problems etc.  Would that be something that would be welcome?  As you said it's not something Slow Ways could do as an organisation necessarily but we could empower walkers to know the steps to take to report things.

    Best wishes,
    Cristie

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  • Yorkie Christine

    OK great, happy to go with this unless there comes an outpouring of opinion from others that I'd only be clogging up the network…!  I'll go ahead and upload alternatives (once I've rewalked the relevant sections first in case something has changed since I was last there).  

    A workshop on rights of way sounds useful to me…

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  • Cristie Moore

    Thanks Christine, super helpful feedback.  Will have a chat with Dan about a workshop.

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