Between Lower Strines Farm and Old Shaw Lane (track).
On a warm day cooled deceptively by a breeze, Neil Diment and Frank H worked on waymarking a bridleway (Blackshaw 022) and a footpath (Blackshaw 015) before installing a dog-gate where the right-of-way (Blackshaw 015) from Lower Strines Farm meets Brown Hill Lane.
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| 1. Worksites: Blue dot a bridleway. Yellow dots footpath and Red dot dog-gate. |
The detail.
The first task (blue dot) was to re-embed the bridleway markerpost where the track (Old Shaw Lane) leaves the road (Old Shaw Lane). Mmm! Confused yet? See the map for clarification.
Here's the end result:
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| 2. Bridleway: Old markerpost unearthed and re-embedded. |
The second task was to waymark the right-of-way that goes from Lower Strines Farm towards the 'elbow' at New Shaw Lane (see map). The defined route follows the wall going south (ish) from the farm before making a sharp direction change to the south-west to meet New Shaw Lane. We hope the waymarking will keep walkers on the legal route and discourage them from wandering over grazing land. A waymark post (first yellow dot) was installed at the 'direction change' point and waymark discs (second yellow dot) added to the next gate to define the route.
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| 3. Markerpost: Discs being nailed in place. |
The final but more complicated task was to add a 'lift-type' dog-gate (red dot) to the stile where the right-of-way meets Brown Hill Lane/New Shaw Lane.
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| 4. Dog-gate lift installed. Minor support timber for cut rails being fixed in place. |
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| 5. End result: Lift-type dog-gate added to the stile constructed two weeks ago . . . but does it work? |
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| 6. End result. . . . the stile is good but Neil declined to try and get through the dog-gate gap. Wise move! |
We were pleased with the end results. Footpath and bridleway directions have been clarified and the dog-gate avoids dogwalkers having to use the awkward to open (and occasionally padlocked) field gate.
Today's work was funded by Blackshaw Head Parish Council. Many thanks for your support.
