Gentle GS bimble Saturday 9th February 2008, Newbury area

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For a couple of hours taking in some of the Wayfarer's Walk and Coombe Gibbet.

Leaving Chieveley Services at 12.

Nothing too strenuous, hopefully, as I haven't taken the GSA "off-road" for seven months :eek:

No idea what state the Byways are in at the moment, but I expect TKCs will be a good idea :)
 
Will these be the byways we took on the way to the TVT gathering in June?

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Will have to check the weekend schedule - and might come on the DR... :D
 
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Will these be the byways we took on the way to the TVT gathering in June?
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I was thinking of heading South down the A34 for a few miles and explore the "Ox Drove" just North of Burghclere, which I haven't done.

Then just South of Burghclere we have...
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Then a few more miles of A34 to pick up
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Location of Geoffrey De Havilland's first flight

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Start of a 3 miles section of the Wayfarers walk leading to the A34.

Wide variety of surfaces, deep ruts and technical in places.

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Missing out the "ruts of doom" then

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Now in the top left corner of the West sheet of OS Explorer map 144.

Wayfarers Walk. The start of a series of tracks totalling 4.5 miles in length.

Rutted, flints, fairly technical.



but doing the above in reverse order IYSWIM :)

Then carry on further West a few miles and pick up another section of the Wayfarer's by Combe Gibbet that I haven't done before (Ash did a thread recently that I can't find now) - Starts at SU 380 615
 
Ox drove is nice and flat, and wet at the moment. The eastern end is a bit more interesting but quite short. May as well also do the BOAT from Ridgemore farm to Old Burghclaire while muddy.
 
Sorry, should have said that I am up for it and will be at the services at 12.
On a GS1150A.
 
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