CROWS (Community Rights Of Way Service): TODMORDEN

A morning which started with light drizzle and low cloud transformed into a beautiful May day. We were so lucky to be out!

There were four teams working from Todmorden today:

1 Ken and Gareth: improving a stile on the Todmorden Centenary Way below Bearnshaw Tower.

2 RJ and David: strimming the Pennine Bridleway (PBW) near to 'The Top Brink'.

3 Mick and Neil: surveying and measuring up for future jobs and seeking permission for a number of essential stile repairs, see separate blog.

4 Catherine and Kasher: stile repairs near Sourhall (where we were serenaded by a very vocal cuckoo and a loudly yaffling Green Woodpecker) and then putting in replacement marker posts, and waymarkers, on the paths near to Great Rock.

Today's work has been funded by Lancashire County Council (for the work on the PBW) with all other activities funded by Todmorden Town Council. Many thanks.

Many thanks too to the Top Brink for allowing us to park in their car park whilst strimming in the area.

Team 1:

This gate on the TCW above Frostholme Mill and below Bearnshaw Tower has seen many iterations. However this stile was extremely hard to use if you were less than 6 feet tall.... the top rail was just too high (or the second step was just too low). Hopefully today's amendments to the stile will make things easier.

The stile originally had three steps...but
was still hard to use.

Ken removing one of the redundant
"legs" of the stile. This was replaced with a
much longer "leg".

Gareth testing the new version of this stile.

Team 2:

CROWS have again been 'contracted' to strim sections of the Pennine Bridleway in the Upper Calder Valley. Today was the second major strimming session of the season.