The Ridgeway and Feeders (between Streatley and the A34)

SU 534 824 to SU 532 840

SU532840
 

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Snapshot of the tracks done on Wednesday - the purple lines indicate tracks yet to do to complete this part of the Ridgeway and feeders.
 

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SU 534 824 to SU 534 820

Location: SU534824/SU534820

Map: Explorer 170

Date: 14/09/2005

Weather: Dry, Rain a few days ago

Difficulty: 2 - Moderate difficulty - perhaps deep ruts or large stones. Off road tyres and a bit of experience recommended.

Status: RUPP

Source: OS Map

Restrictions: None

Notes: Mud/Grass narrow deep ruts - partially overgrown.
 
SU534824 (looking towards SU534820)
 

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SU 525 823 to SU 509 832

Location: SU525823/SU509832

Map: Explorer 170

Date: 14/09/2005

Weather: Dry, Rain a few days ago

Difficulty: 2 - Moderate difficulty - perhaps deep ruts or large stones. Off road tyres and a bit of experience recommended.

Status: RUPP

Source: OS Map, Signpost indicates "Public Right Of Way"

Restrictions: None

Notes: Mud/Grass narrow deep ruts for part of the way. Concrete road has "replaced" the rest of the track, although it is still visible, an oil drum in the middle of the grass seems to indicate the concrete road should be used.
 
SU525823

RUPP is the right track, the Ridgeway proper is the left track.
 

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SU 525 823 to SU 509 832

Joining the concrete road
 

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SU509832 a bridge over an abandoned railway track
 

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Great shots

Clive,
Great shots :thumb
I recognise most of them, as I used to take my Enduro and Trail bikes down there regularly.
Hopefully once my crash bars arrive :( and I get some knobblies, i'll be down there :D

Cheers, Piggers
 
SU 509 832 to SU 497 840

Location: SU509832/SU497840

Map: Explorer 170

Date: 14/09/2005

Weather: Dry, Rain a few days ago

Difficulty: 2 - Moderate difficulty - perhaps deep ruts or large stones. Off road tyres and a bit of experience recommended.

Status: RUPP

Source: OS Map

Restrictions: None

Notes: Mud/Grass ruts for part of the way. Shortly after leaving the railway bridge I found myself following the wrong track across a field - keep to the left hand edge of the field for a few hundred yards then in the next field keep to the right hand edge.
 
SU 509 832 to SU 497 840

Looking back towards SU509832 just after the track swaps from one field to the next
 

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SU 509 832 to SU 497 840

The same place looking foward. I suspect the actual RUPP is in the overgrown bit to the right - the last time I was here the crop in this field was a couple of feet high and where the track went was more obvious.
 

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SU 497 840 to SU 486 844

Location: SU497840/SU486844

Map: Explorer 170

Date: 14/09/2005

Weather: Dry, Rain a few days ago

Difficulty: 1 - Easy unsurfaced road, suitable for a novice on road tyres.

Status: Byway

Source: OS Map

Restrictions: None

Notes: A wide stone unsurfaced road leading to a waste tip - numerous waste lorries - some potholes. Not very interesting.
 
SU 550 843 to SU 537 825

Location: SU550843/SU537825

Map: Explorer 170

Date: 14/09/2005

Weather: Dry, Rain a few days ago

Difficulty: 2 - Moderate difficulty - perhaps deep ruts or large stones. Off road tyres and a bit of experience recommended.

Status: Byway

Source: Signposts (shown on OS Map as RUPP)

Restrictions: None

Notes: A bit of everything - potholes, mud/grass, ruts, sheep, steep chalk hill with deep ruts and washaway. Excellent - a recommended track.
 
SU 550 843 to SU 537 825

SU550843 - track on right leads to SU537825, track on left leads to SU544826
 

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SU 550 843 to SU 537 825

A few hundred yards in the chalk/stone/flint track veers off to the right (to a farmhouse) ? and the grass/mud/ruts start.
 

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SU 550 843 to SU 537 825

Just to the right of the last photo I noticed that a lot of the back garden was taken up with a (wide) model railway. This is possibly a signal box ?
 

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