Category: rECOnnectDengie
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Lapping it Up
The latest newsletter from the Colchester Cycling Campaign includes Mike Polom‘s proposal for a cycle touring lap of Essex which includes a section through the Dengie. While this is primarily a leisure route, I think it makes a useful contribution to thinking about cycle routes on the Dengie, whether for utility, leisure, health or otherwise.…
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Stitching the Path: Connecting Disjointed Walk & Cycle Routes 2
The rECOnnect Dengie project picked up the baton of the proposal to create a safe cycle route between Burnham-on-Crouch and Southminster. Our preferred route uses the alignment of the continuous walking route formed by the footpaths FP 26 242 and FP 17 259. We’ve managed to get this into the county strategy. The Essex LCWIP…
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St Peter’s Ways
The Essex long-distance footpath St. Peter’s Way turns 50 years old soon (based on the 1978 publication of the first guide to the route). I want to celebrate and enhance the route as part of our wider work to improve walking, wheeling and cycling on the Dengie peninsula in the rECOnnect Dengie project of the…
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New Paths – South Woodham Ferrers
Last weekend I walked the two new local sections of the King Charles III England Coast Path (KC3ECP), this is my second account focusing on the new route between South Woodham Ferrers and Battlesbridge, part of the section WIB 3: Hawk Hill Bridge to Clementsgreen Creek [pdf] After reaching South Woodham Ferrers, as described in…
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New Paths – North Fambridge
Last weekend I walked the two new local sections of the King Charles III England Coast Path (KC3ECP) that I mentioned in the previous post. As pre-warned, these were open but unfinished. In this post I review the WIB4 section: Clementsgreen Creek, South Woodham Ferrers to The Quay,North Fambridge [pdf] North Fambridge section This begins…
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Way to Go
[This article develops a recent Facebook post with more maps and discussion of cycle route potentials] I received communication this week that ‘the King Charles III England Coast Path (KC3ECP), and its associated accessible coastal margin is now open around the full Dengie peninsula.’ There were some caveats in the communication, which I copy below…
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Push Biking
The recent and successive cycle strategy documents from Essex and Maldon have failed to suggest what cycle routes on the Dengie could look like – so, I’ve had a go… [I should start by stating that the ideal situation would be a Dutch style network, including completely new cycleways taking the most direct line between…
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The Essex-wide LCWIP
Like me, many of you may have responded to the Essex County Council consultation on the ‘Essex Wide Walking and Cycling Infrastructure Plan’. The results of that consultation were quietly released last August (2025), so you may not have seen them. I’m still working through the documents and I welcome comment and feedback from anyone…
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Poop-Poop
Barely a week goes by now without a collision on the Dengie roads. A couple of months ago this sadly included two fatalities. There’s clearly a problem with drunk and drug driving, but this appears to be a factor in only a minority of cases and doesn’t sufficiently explain the frequency of dangerous driving incidents.…
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Stitching the Path: Connecting Disjointed Walk & Cycle Routes 1
A mission objective of the rECOnnect Dengie project is to improve the active travel infrastructure on the Dengie and get a safe network of routes connecting all the settlements. As I’ve noted previously, there are lots of good words about achieving this sort of thing in the strategy documents produced from the national level down…
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