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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Kenilworth and Coventry.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Kenilworth and Coventry.
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This route has been reviewed by 3 people.
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Route status - Live
Reviews - 3
Average rating -
Is this route good enough? - Yes (3)
There are currently no problems reported with this route.
Downloads - 9
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Kenilworth
Grid Ref
SP2921271725
Lat / Lon
52.34284° / -1.57262°
Easting / Northing
429,212E / 271,725N
What3Words
pigs.seated.trips
Coventry
Grid Ref
SP3360079200
Lat / Lon
52.40979° / -1.50747°
Easting / Northing
433,600E / 279,200N
What3Words
strong.client.manage
Kencov Two's land is
| Kenilworth | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SP2921271725 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.34284° / -1.57262° |
| Easting / Northing | 429,212E / 271,725N |
| What3Words | pigs.seated.trips |
| Coventry | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SP3360079200 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.40979° / -1.50747° |
| Easting / Northing | 433,600E / 279,200N |
| What3Words | strong.client.manage |
| Arable | 30.9% |
| Green urban | 6.9% |
| Urban | 62.2% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
reviews
Edsimmonds
08 Sep 2024Walked 8th September 2024
From Coventry to Kenilworth.
Agree with previous comments made about this route. It is a walking route but not ideal for cyclists and in its current form not wheelchair/pushchair friendly. The stile previously mentioned in an earlier review (but now repaired) precludes both as does the soft ground alongside the University cricket pitches between Gibbet Hill and Cryfield Grange Road. This could easily be avoided if after exiting the University Grounds you turn right along Gibbet Hill Road and then left at the island onto Leighfield road to join up with KenCov2 at the start of the link road to the Greenway.
Unfortunately HS2 works still blight the section of the walk after crossing Cryfield Grange Road with a detour still in place from the original (shorter) route.
Steve Litchfield
21 Aug 2022I walked this route north from Kenilworth. On the whole it's a good route, taking an interesting path through Gibbet Hill. Unfortunately though, HS2 has blighted the route and forced a diversion from the mapped route. From what I can gather, the temporary diversion will be in place until at least 2024, when a new permanent diversion will apparently be laid.
The other reasons it doesn't get more stars is that in my opinion the route could be improved. A previous review has highlighted some improvements, but I also believe the off-road path through Stivichall Common could be utilised instead of the footpath around the junction of Earlsdon Ave & Kenilworth Road, as well as a path which avoids the road walking along The Shrubberies entirely. I feel a Kencov Three coming on...
Negatives aside, it is a good route utilising a bit of the Kenilworth Greenway on the old disused rail line to Berkswell and a good bit of Gibbet Hill Wood. It has a fair few gates/cattle grids and just one tricky fence leaving the field at Gibbet Hill Road, which appears to have a broken stile making you climb the gate instead. The path next to the cricket ground in Gibbet Hill has netting to separate errant cricket balls from the path on match days.
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Marion Frankland
16 May 2021-the intial section of the Kenilworth Road should drop off the pavement on the left (walking out of Coventry) and onto the footpath through the woods between the road and the Memorial Park.
-After crossing the a45, there is a footpath through the woods on the right side of the road (heading out of Coventry). This is between the pavement and the houses.
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