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Chippenham — Royal Wootton Bassett

Chiroy one

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By a Slow Ways Volunteer on 07 Apr 2021

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Distance

22km/14mi

Ascent

232m

Descent

151m

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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Chippenham and Royal Wootton Bassett.

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Problems reported - Access (1)

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Chippenham
Grid Ref	ST9202773318
Lat / Lon	51.45878^° / -2.11614^°
Easting / Northing	392,027E / 173,318N
What3Words	legs.daydreams.estuaries

Royal Wootton Bassett
Grid Ref	SU0673382577
Lat / Lon	51.54205^° / -1.90430^°
Easting / Northing	406,733E / 182,577N
What3Words	financial.piano.popular

Chiroy One's land is

Arable	30.7%
Pasture	41.0%
Urban	24.5%
Woods	3.8%

Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018

review

Brian

26 Apr 2023 Spring

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This is a curate's egg of a walk, traveling from RWB to Chippenham, it is a mix of normal UK footpaths, well groomed estates and golf course, attractive sections and views, together with quiet lanes and tracks, and an interesting section around Lyneham airfield with its military hardware on display.
The downsides are the number of diversions having to be taken to avoid lively cows, and footpaths which have been deliberately extinguished by landowners.
These include
a ) ST 97001 77157 : walking through someones garden, the stile into field, all means of access has been removed, preventing walking across fields to ST 95901 76688
b ) ST 99337 77999 to ST 99270 77913 : path has been removed
c ) ST 99191 77763 to ST 98644 77404 : excitable cows
( a ) and ( c ) involved diverting route onto quiet lanes, whilst ( b ) involved much to-in and fro-in trying to find the path in a wilderness, then opting on an alternative route entirely
As a result, I thought it appropriate to upload another route, which takes out these issues.
This alternative shows where the actual route on the ground is, rather than the OS map line.
All issues above have been formally notified to Wilts ROW Department - together with crops over paths, damaged stiles etc [ which I regarded as surmountable ]
All photos indicate the non existing paths.

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