West Mersea — Wivenhoe
Weswiv one
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By a Slow Ways Volunteer on 07 Apr 2021
Description
This is a Slow Ways route connecting West Mersea and Wivenhoe.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting West Mersea and Wivenhoe.
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Route status - Live
Reviews - 1
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Is this route good enough? - Yes (1)
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Downloads - 4
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
West Mersea
Grid Ref
TM0090212536
Lat / Lon
51.77543° / 0.91073°
Easting / Northing
600,902E / 212,536N
What3Words
outbursts.bidder.protect
Wivenhoe
Grid Ref
TM0369121671
Lat / Lon
51.85645° / 0.95647°
Easting / Northing
603,691E / 221,671N
What3Words
bleak.slices.milky
Weswiv One's land is
West Mersea | |
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Grid Ref | TM0090212536 |
Lat / Lon | 51.77543° / 0.91073° |
Easting / Northing | 600,902E / 212,536N |
What3Words | outbursts.bidder.protect |
Wivenhoe | |
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Grid Ref | TM0369121671 |
Lat / Lon | 51.85645° / 0.95647° |
Easting / Northing | 603,691E / 221,671N |
What3Words | bleak.slices.milky |
Arable | 38.2% |
Intertidal flats | 1.4% |
Marshes | 12.2% |
Pasture | 20.2% |
Urban | 24.2% |
Woods | 3.8% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
review
James Piers Taylor
16 Jul 2024I walked this with a friend on a warm, overcast day in July, travelling from Wivenhoe to West Mersea, and enjoyed the journey. There's some good countryside in this walk but I've marked it down for some unavoidable road walking on a busy B-road, poor way marking on the ground, and due to several variable factors that might affect someone walking it. In short, the variable factors are: 1. The Wivenhoe-Rowhedge ferry - it's not part of this route, it's seasonal and tide-dependent but if it *is* available when you are walking you can knock out the stretch up and back down the Colne which takes you via the outskirts of Colchester 2. Fingringhoe Ranges - the route takes a PROW through this MOD facility. When there’s scheduled firing there, and/or when the red flags are flying there’s no access to that route 3) The Strood causeway to Mersea Island - high tides can cover this and make it impassable until they recede. When we walked this Slow Way, the tide was too low for the ferry, the Ranges were clear, and The Strood was untroubled by water - so we walked as laid out here without trouble from the variables. We were vexed, however, by the road walking on the B1025 close to Mersea Island on the mainland, and then on a stretch of the B1025 on the island between the Strood and a welcome footpath west towards West Mersea. The road here was busy and unpavemented, there were verges - but they were rough and uneven and might easily be unusable if not cut. I can't see any good alternative at present to using the roads though.
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