Snodit one

Slow Way not verified yet. Verify Snodit here.

This is a good route but let down by the line being inexact and thus misleading, in just the area where both OS and OS base mapping also have some issues which gives the same misleading impression. In practice it's not too bad, and I've seen routes with more serious problems that have been verified. But, as there are no pre-existing reviews on the route, I'm going to upload a new, unambiguous version so any future walkers don't waste any time deliberating or even following the wrong path. The new route uses and the gps line I actually walked along and should fit clearly onto the base maps.

The issues were along the River Medway section where the public footpath consistently runs along a concrete shelf or bund on the *river* side of the flood defense wall for the industrial sites. A combination of things make it seem plausible that the route goes inland just north and just south of where the actual, riverside footpath has a junction with New Hythe Lane. The OS map makes the public footpath seem to lie along roads within the industrial areas and inland of the riverwall. The SnoDit 1 route line is drawn even further inland. The fingerpost at the junction doesn't clarify things and the concrete riverside path has a neglected air and looks as likely to be a dead-end engineering feature as a dedicated Public Right of Way. Open Street Maps are, as usual, more detailed and in theory helpful, but part of the path to the north of the junction (where it physically hangs over the river!) is missing from OSM, suggesting a dead end and so, again, that the route (and PRoW) must be on the landward side of the river wall because OSM don't differentiate PRoW from private paths and roads. If you made the wrong choice there are no informal cut throughs between the river and the industrial park's roads, just high walls topped with barbed or razor wire. You'd have to double right back.

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