Byways and highways

[weekender]

How's that for a byway! Well I'm impressed anyway..👍😎


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[Squidders]

How incredibly neat and tidy.

 

[nephilim]

Id love to know where as my friend and I went greenlaning a few weeks ago and everywhere was either ruined from bikes, heavy ditches where cars get stuck or padlocked shut

 

[Joonsy]

that's nice, I love walking old byways, most by me though are badly churned up by horses or tractors, it's incredibly lightly used and well kept. Is it public or some part of a partridge/pheasant shoot.

 

[weekender]

It's public but it runs through to an estate not a dead end but it finishes at the estate farm.
Something else I saw on my walk not seen this colour before, I like that I can still be surprised.
Mmm won't let me upload another pic? Still! It was a pheasant with a white cap and lots of white dotted over the body and tail feathers about 3 feet long, it then decided to walk with me along the path for quite a few minutes..?!



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[MT606]

no pikies in transits or disco mudpluggers have been up that track eh, unlike some in Beds that are just 2ft of sludge

 

[Joonsy]

It's public but it runs through to an estate not a dead end but it finishes at the estate farm.
Something else I saw on my walk not seen this colour before, I like that I can still be surprised.
Mmm won't let me upload another pic? Still! It was a pheasant with a white cap and lots of white dotted over the body and tail feathers about 3 feet long, it then decided to walk with me along the path for quite a few minutes..?!

oh I was thinking it might be connected with a shooting estate, that bird sounds like a ''Reeves Pheasant''.

 

[weekender]

Ahh there we go it's uploaded now.


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[Joonsy]

aha yes a Reeves Pheasant like I suggested above, they have particularly long tails.

 

[boatman]

If you are interested in byways/footpaths that might be relics of old roads have a look at these publications.http://www.harrymargary.com/product_list.asp?type=county . Hopefully a major library near you might have them. Compare the roads shown with the definitive footpath two and a half inch Ordnance Survey maps that should also be there. I did this a lot for berkshire and it is fascinating,

There are others publications that do this as well. Ask your Local History Librarian.

 

[Joonsy]

adding on to boatman's reply above another useful source of oldish maps (middle to late 1800s onwards) is the free online maps provided by National Library of Scotland (it covers all the UK), they give some good information.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=5&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=7&b=1&point=0,0

 

[Leshy]

adding on to boatman's reply above another useful source of oldish maps (middle to late 1800s onwards) is the free online maps provided by National Library of Scotland (it covers all the UK), they give some good information.

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=5&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=7&b=1&point=0,0

Good resource! Thanks Joonsy , very handy indeed... 👍