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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Spencers Wood and Reading.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Spencers Wood and Reading.
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This route has been reviewed by 3 people.
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Route status - Live
Reviews - 3
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Is this route good enough? - Yes (3)
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Downloads - 6
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Spencers Wood
Grid Ref
SU7145766287
Lat / Lon
51.39113° / -0.97438°
Easting / Northing
471,457E / 166,287N
What3Words
horns.broad.sheet
Reading
Grid Ref
SU7150773750
Lat / Lon
51.45822° / -0.97216°
Easting / Northing
471,507E / 173,750N
What3Words
goad.models.spends
Sperea One's land is
| Spencers Wood | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SU7145766287 |
| Lat / Lon | 51.39113° / -0.97438° |
| Easting / Northing | 471,457E / 166,287N |
| What3Words | horns.broad.sheet |
| Reading | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SU7150773750 |
| Lat / Lon | 51.45822° / -0.97216° |
| Easting / Northing | 471,507E / 173,750N |
| What3Words | goad.models.spends |
| Arable | 9.1% |
| Pasture | 7.4% |
| Urban | 83.4% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
reviews
Berkshire Walker
30 May 2023I agree with other two reviews. A safe but dull route, almost all on urban pavements beside busy roads. Links A to B, but nothing else to commend it.
Alice Norman
30 Jun 2022I use this route regularly as I live off Northumberland Avenue to go to Reading or Spencers Wood. I wouldn't choose to walk it if I didn't need to get to those places as I agree with the previous reviewer that it has "little to commend it".
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Martin Ellis
15 Aug 2021Spencers Wood to Reading (Sperea 1) review.
A walk almost entirely beside roads with little to commend it.
It starts by a post office in Spencers Wood and heads north and then northeast to a M4 footbridge. The Six Bells pub is just before the bridge (Photo 1).
A detour up the Whitley Woods Lane leads to the Brutalist-style Shire Hall, once the offices of Berkshire County Council.
The route passes through Whitley along the Northumberland Avenue to Christ Church (Photo 2), and on into Central Reading.
This Slow Way meets the criteria of joining Reading with Spencers Wood. I can’t readily see a better route, although it’s not a walk I’d care to take again.
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