Green Lanes ? Harts, Beds, Bucks, Nothampton

[MickTabs]

Hi There,

Want to do some green laning and need a map or some information on any county that has some green lanes, can anyone help?

Regards

Mick

 

[BamBam]

Have been thinking of going out myself, there are a few lanes around here I know of. So what will you be riding, what tires, have you been before etc

 

[Piggers]

Lanes

Hi There,

Want to do some green laning and need a map or some information on any county that has some green lanes, can anyone help?

Regards

Mick

Hi Mick,

i may still have marked up Beds and Northants OS maps somewhere and there are no green lanes at all in Buck's if my memmory serves me right.
Most of the County Councils now close the lanes over the winter months to motor vehicles by way of TRO's. I think they used to open arond April time & close in Octoberish.
If you want to do a lot of Green Laning it may be worth joining the local TRF.

Cheers, Piggers

 

[MickTabs]

Hi Piggers , BamBam,

Thanks for the posts, while i own a GS 1200 Adventure i dont really want to take it green laning so i will use my DRZ 400 E for the real muddy stuff. Would be great to have some company! I live in Bedford and have heard northampton is the best and nearest place to green lane. Piggers if you have those OS maps with routes on them they would be great to borrow and i would buy new one and copy the routes onto them if you can find them.

I have completed the BMW off road courses but never been green laning before but the bike has full nobblies.

Maybe you could let us know if you find the maps?

Regards

Mick

 

[Piggers]

Hi Piggers , BamBam,

Thanks for the posts, while i own a GS 1200 Adventure i dont really want to take it green laning so i will use my DRZ 400 E for the real muddy stuff. Would be great to have some company! I live in Bedford and have heard northampton is the best and nearest place to green lane. Piggers if you have those OS maps with routes on them they would be great to borrow and i would buy new one and copy the routes onto them if you can find them.

I have completed the BMW off road courses but never been green laning before but the bike has full nobblies.

Maybe you could let us know if you find the maps?

Regards

Mick

The maps should be in the loft of my garage, but if they aren't I could mark the Northants routes from memory as I rode it so mant times !

Piggers

 

[RadioActive]

There are quite a lot of "green lanes" in Hertfordshire if you check out the OS maps but Beds seems a bit sparse. I haven't investigated Northants or Bucks yet.

Chris

 

[MickTabs]

Not being very good with OS maps, are you saying the green lanes are marked on thease maps?

Regards

Mick

 

[Clive]

Not being very good with OS maps, are you saying the green lanes are marked on thease maps?

Yes - the 1:50,000 scale maps (Pink Landranger) have Byways marked as red crosses Example

and UCRs marked as red dots on white "road" Example

BTW - I found these by finding Bedford, selecting 1:25000 scale and then just headed south

Edit: Another Example

 

[MickTabs]

Hi Clive,

Thanks for the info, ill buy a map and work it out. But just a few questions:-
Is a byway a green lane? Whats a UCR? Is multimap better than an OS map?

Regards

Mick

 

[BamBam]

Thanks for the info, ill buy a map and work it out. But just a few questions:-
Is a byway a green lane? Whats a UCR? Is multimap better than an OS map?

OS is a paper map made by ordnance survey which multimap uses under licence.
green lane is slang for byway: UCR is Unclassified County Road.
Have a look at Memory-map to load up on the laptop or pc you can then load routes on to a GPS.

Cain

 

[MickTabs]

Hi Cain,

Thanks for the info, ill load memory map and see whats near by. Thanks for the help, do you live near bedford?

Mick

 

[BamBam]

Just outside Cambridge not to far.