Tag: hiking
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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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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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Bursou Two

In the previous post, I mentioned that the Slow Ways route Bursou One is one of three footpath-orientated ways between Burnham and Southminster. I committed to adding my preferred walking route between the two as an additional Slow Way. It’s now been added as Bursou Two. Below, I have appended my route description from the…
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Bursou One

After writing about the role public transport, particularly the railway, must play in planning local decarbonisation, I will next write about the role of active travel – walking, wheeling and riding. Before I return to the desk-bound dissection though, it’s time to get outside.