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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Inkberrow and Redditch.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Inkberrow and Redditch.
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Is this route good enough? - Yes (1)
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Inkberrow
Grid Ref
SP0146457290
Lat / Lon
52.21384° / -1.97998°
Easting / Northing
401,464E / 257,290N
What3Words
bonfires.responds.changing
Redditch
Grid Ref
SP0382367508
Lat / Lon
52.30569° / -1.94534°
Easting / Northing
403,823E / 267,508N
What3Words
insist.deflection.socket
Inkred One's land is
Inkberrow | |
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Grid Ref | SP0146457290 |
Lat / Lon | 52.21384° / -1.97998° |
Easting / Northing | 401,464E / 257,290N |
What3Words | bonfires.responds.changing |
Redditch | |
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Grid Ref | SP0382367508 |
Lat / Lon | 52.30569° / -1.94534° |
Easting / Northing | 403,823E / 267,508N |
What3Words | insist.deflection.socket |
Arable | 26.5% |
Green urban | 4.5% |
Pasture | 39.3% |
Urban | 29.7% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
review
Steve Litchfield
01 Sep 2024I walked this route yesterday from Redditch. It's a good route with a steep incline in whichever direction you choose to walk it. The route from Redditch does have more descent overall. If the rights of way in a couple of places were not overgrown, I would have possibly given it five stars. Unfortunately the lack of maintenance let it down.
The first section which docked a star was the section around Astwood Hill Farm. When you reach the farm, the waymarkers have been removed necessitating use of the GPS to navigate the route through. Photo 7 shows the mapped route through a farm yard which thankfully was clear of livestock when I did the walk. However, if it was full, I spotted a route around the farm buildings I would have used instead.
Immediately after leaving the farm behind, on the other side of the field is a gate onto Crofts Lane. Use this gate to get onto the lane despite there being a right of way in the field running parallel to the lane. When I got to the other side of the field, the stile out of it was so overgrown (photo 8) I had to retrace my steps back to the gate and walked along the lane instead. Of course, the overgrown stile might not be so bad in winter/spring.
The other particularly overgrown section was south of Feckenham, between the woods next to Feckenham Wylde Moor and Brandon Brook (photo 12 & 13). This made me remove another star from my rating. A real shame as otherwise a great walk, and again perhaps might not be so bad at other times of the year.
There is a pub at Feckenham for refreshments (Rose & Crown) and the route has a good deal of stiles, gates, footbridges, steps and fences to negotiate. I would do it again as the views from the high points are impressive, but i'd recommend it for times of the year where vegetation isn't so abundant.
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