Description
This is a Slow Ways route connecting Kirkham and Preston.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Kirkham and Preston.
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This route has been reviewed by 1 person.
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Route status - Live
Reviews - 1
Average rating -
Is this route good enough? - No (1)
Problems reported - Accuracy (1)
Downloads - 5
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Grade 5: Route includes technical and arduous terrain where there may be potentially impassable barriers if the correct equipment is not used or barriers which require assistance to overcome. Potential barriers must be photographed and described. Access grade X: At least one stile, flight of steps or other obstacle that is highly likely to block access for wheelchair and scooter users. |
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Facilities
Facilities in the middle third of this route.
Challenges
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Obstacles
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Accessibility
Is this route step and stile free?
Measurements
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Narrowest part of path: no data
The steepest uphill gradient East: no data
The steepest uphill gradient West: no data
The steepest camber: no data
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Successfully completed
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Terrain
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There is no data on how much of this route is on roads
There is no data on how much of this route is lit at night
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1 surveys
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Geography information system (GIS) data
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Start and end points
Kirkham
Grid Ref
SD4267832171
Lat / Lon
53.78271° / -2.87142°
Easting / Northing
342,678E / 432,171N
What3Words
tides.hindering.skins
Preston
Grid Ref
SD5346429122
Lat / Lon
53.75638° / -2.70728°
Easting / Northing
353,464E / 429,122N
What3Words
join.sleeps.than
Kirpre One's land is
Kirkham | |
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Grid Ref | SD4267832171 |
Lat / Lon | 53.78271° / -2.87142° |
Easting / Northing | 342,678E / 432,171N |
What3Words | tides.hindering.skins |
Preston | |
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Grid Ref | SD5346429122 |
Lat / Lon | 53.75638° / -2.70728° |
Easting / Northing | 353,464E / 429,122N |
What3Words | join.sleeps.than |
Arable | 4.1% |
Pasture | 51.5% |
Urban | 44.4% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
review
Mary Oz
05 Apr 2022This route is awful.
1.7miles/2.7k of it is a long a busy dual carriageway, which has a tiny overgrown pavement on one side, then you have to cross it with no pedestrian lights, to get to a farm track. The designer of this route wouldn’t have known, but it also happens that there are major road works going on here which block this farm track.
Worse than this though, is that another 1.7m/2.7k of the route follows the course of a Roman Road (the dead straight line gives it away). This is only marked on the 1:50,000 OS Map, and disappears when you switch to 1:25,000, because it doesn’t exist on the ground. Presumably it vanished under the farms centuries ago!! It crosses field boundaries, drainage ditches, a small pond, and even roads. In a straight line.
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