Tag: Dengie
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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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the communities we serve
The last delivery of fresh goods arrived at the Burnham Co-op yesterday, apparently the price markdowns start on Thursday. The store closes in 3 days time, on Saturday at 10pm. Then there’s nothing until Sainsbury’s open a store here in “October” (no date specified). The stock started being run down a few weeks ago. Now,…
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Energy Sovereignty
Why aren’t Reform UK pursuing the energy sovereignty that electrification, heat pumps and renewable generation can offer the UK? Why fuck all that up to pursue the dwindling fossil fuels left in the North Sea if you aren’t going to nationalise the little of what’s left there and prioritise using it for the national transition?…
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Rural Futuring
‘I want to believe in it. I want to go on believing in it. ButI cannot quite yet. Because we haven’t yet arrived. We are still undeniably at the bridge. The liminal chaos clings to our garments and clouds our vision. We must move. We must create this future. We must create it before we…
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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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Hostile Environment
It’s a Quintuple! The Gods have spoken. Communities Secretary Steve Reed came down from Mount Westminster this weekend and proclaimed that 15 councils in Essex will be abolished and replaced with five local authorities. I was surprised that UK Gov had not gone with the three unitary authority model proposed by Essex County Council, which…
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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…
Dengie Bioregion 