Long distance footpath sign thread

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♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Jun 2023 8:21pm, 1 Jun 2023 49,995 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Following up on the Marches Way. Here’s a map and a bit of an explanation from Les Lumsdon, the author of the guidebook (who I assume was also the designer of the route). It looks like an interesting route.
Derby Tup Jun 2023 8:46pm, 1 Jun 2023 59,762 posts	0 Derby Tup Me too Is this the route along the Chesterfield Canal? Ignore this! I've been on your route and it's a fair way from the crooked spire
Mushroom Oct 2023 8:09am, 2 Oct 2023 2,795 posts	0 Mushroom
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Oct 2023 8:59am, 12 Oct 2023 51,112 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ I like this one. It’s an SWCP sign outside Appledore.
um Oct 2023 9:04am, 12 Oct 2023 7,786 posts	0 um I'll be looking for that one Synge. We're off to Bideford tomorrow to fill a gap.
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Oct 2023 9:35pm, 12 Oct 2023 51,114 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ um - there’s a coincidence! We’ve just spent three days doing Barnstaple to Bideford, Bideford to Green Cliff (just beyond Westward Ho!) and Green Cliff to Clovelly. I should write a blog to celebrate the fact the we are half way. Plymouth to Poole was 217 miles (we started at Smeaton’s Tower) and we have added 99 miles between Minehead and Clovelly, so we are just past 50% of the 630-mile total. (This sounds great, but it has somehow taken us seven years to get this far!)
um Oct 2023 9:05am, 13 Oct 2023 7,789 posts	0 um ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ We'll be targetting the end of Hobby Drive to Westward Ho!, then to Bideford (trying to decide if that's 1 or 2 days), then filling in gaps around Lynmouth and Culbone. Or running bits of the Tarka Trail. The house is a mile and a bit out of Bideford, so we'll get 3-4 'bonus' miles each day to add to the SWCP miles. Were there many birds on the estuary sections?
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Oct 2023 9:57am, 13 Oct 2023 51,116 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ We were amazed at the variety on the north side of the Taw as we headed into Barnstaple a couple of months ago; the Torridge this week was less noteworthy, although still plenty of oystercatchers, redshank, curlews and the ubiquitous little egret. Possibly less busy as we were passing on rising tides this time?
Derby Tup Oct 2023 3:27pm, 13 Oct 2023 61,477 posts	0 Derby Tup
.B. Oct 2023 4:58pm, 13 Oct 2023 46,786 posts	0 .B. Ooh that’s an interesting one DT