West MerseaWivenhoe

Weswiv one
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By a Slow Ways Volunteer on 07 Apr 2021


Distance

20km/13mi

Ascent

136m

Descent

147m

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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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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

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 2024 Summer

I 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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