JdeBPNov 9, 2024
To prove that it exists, I went and photographed Point C (per the town council's map) on the new re-routed bridleway around the #ShakespeareMarina at #StratfordUponAvon, which hugs the edge of the private car park for the rich people with small boats.

I believe that this sort of reconnaissance and reporting back is called #scouting, or something. This probably earns me a using-a-camera-in-the-rain badge. (-:

#bridleways #footpaths
Show threadJdeBPSep 22, 2024

One can see, by the way, where the people who re-routed the bridleway were supposed to fully join it up with Seven Meadows Road (or even just the footpath that parallels that road) separately from the Shakespeare Marina driveway, like the town council's map says, and just did not bother.

@keefeglise #StratfordUponAvon #ShakespeareMarina #scouting

JdeBPSep 22, 2024

Point C.

The new re-routed path hugs the edge of the private car park for the rich people with small boats.

I believe that this sort of reconnaissance and reporting back is called scouting, or something. This probably earns me a using-a-camera-in-the-rain badge. (-:

@keefeglise #StratfordUponAvon #ShakespeareMarina #scouting

JdeBPSep 22, 2024

@keefeglise @Walkaholic @snaprails

It's not really my map. (-:

Maps from the OS, the USGS, the IGN and the like are only updated on a cycle.

Amusingly, Bing Maps's road map has the marina, but of course Microsoft doesn't believe in the existence of bridleways. OpenStreetMap has the revised bridleway route around the car park, though.

Point B is where the path used to be. You want point C.

Hmm. Waitrose, 'appen.

#StratfordUponAvon #ShakespeareMarina #rambling

Show threadJdeBPSep 22, 2024

@keefeglise @Walkaholic @snaprails

Formally approved in June of last year. The order has a handy diagram of where the bridleway junction now is.

https://www.stratford-tc.gov.uk/files/Confirmed_Notice_and_Order_-_Diversion_of_Public_Footpaths_SB34_and_SB35_Stratford-upon-Avon.pdf

#StratfordUponAvon #ShakespeareMarina #rambling

JdeBPSep 22, 2024

@keefeglise @Walkaholic @snaprails

Or you could read the Stratford Herald. (-:

The bridleway was diverted along Seven Meadows Road a year ago to make way for the new Shakespeare Marina whose car park you were looking at. Your Ordnance Survey map is not up to date.

https://www.stratford-herald.com/_media/asset/DJ4X8EHGQ10X58TL2LDV.pdf

#StratfordUponAvon #ShakespeareMarina #rambling