Author: chris bargman

Route R – Titford Bridge (Detton to Neen Savage) – Thank you

Rode the Titford bridge this afternoon after the work party had done their stuff. Excellent! This is one of our longer routes and makes a lovely and interesting ride.   The bridge could be a bit of a challenge but so long as you are sensible (dismount) and take your time the horses don’t seem to mind. There are helpful lengths of rope to close the gates behind you.  I did clear back the nettles from the gate onto the road at Detton which is a bit narrow so take care. Also the gate by Keepers Cottage has a large log under so your horse needs to be happy stepping over this. There is a great opportunity for a relatively safe fast canter all the way from the river crossing up towards the road at Detton.

Pictures below showing the path that has been cleared (a long stretch and now so much easier to use), the stoned section we did a couple of years ago is holding up well. Shows the long term value of what we do and doing a job well. The bridge and mounting blocks which have been cleared (each end) although the mounting blocks were obviously put in by a non-rider as the steps are the wrong way round for mounting the normal way.

Many thanks to the work party today for making this route such a pleasure to use.

Work Party Sunday 6th August 10am – Please come and help. Tittford Bridge – Keepers Cottage

Your help needed for a bridleway clearance work party on Sunday 6th August, Tittford Bridge – Keepers Cottage bridleway. This is a lovely route but has got overgrown in parts.

Meet at  Olwen’s (Reaside Farm, Neen Savage, DY14 8ES) at 10am. Please try to come along to help as we saw last week that many hands soon get the work done for the benefit of all. Bring equipment suitable for clearance work.

Any questions contact John Sutton – 01746 718652.

Work Party – 30th July – Good Job Done

We had a very good turn out on Sunday for the clearance work party.

Thanks to John, Gill, Steve, Yvonne, Sally, Alan, John, Sandra, Jackie, Clare, Arthur, Chris, Jo.  It is amazing what can be achieved in a short time if enough people get together.  It only took an hour and a half  and we had cleared back the overgrown path and hedges for the full length of the bridleway opening it up and hopefully spreading the wear. This is a lovely path and well worth using. The lanes are very quiet to make a nice round route.

Also thanks to Yvonne for the invite back for Coffee and biscuits.

We hope to hold work parties on next 2 Sundays. Sunday 6th we are probably going to have a clearance party on Keepers Cottage to Tittford Bridge route. Sunday 13th will probably be Catherton Common and Hill Houses to clear back gorse and overhanging branches etc.

Will post details but please let John or Chris know if you can come along and help.

Meeting 26th July 2017

Attendees: John , Chris, Pete, Louise, Yvonne, Steve, Sally, Alan

Apologies: Clare, Kay, Gill, Paula, Gill, Sandra, Jackie, Corinne

Routes:

Detton – Prescott – Has been opened up with hedge cutter and some large stone put down in worst of holes. Now needs some small stone on top and ditch clearing in wood down to stream.

Action : John to keep chasing Council for stone.

Hinton – Urgently needs a clearance party as is very overgrown.

Action: Work party (see below)

Hill Houses – Not too bad but could do with overhanging branches cleared

Action: Work party (see below)

Nunnery – Could do with some drainage/improvement work near bottom. Still have option to get small amount of match funding from Hopton Parish council. If we can get some stone from council we could look at this.

Action : All to monitor and feedback

Walters Lane – Council started work. Waiting for digger to become available to order stone and finish work. They have promised to do this soon. Route has recently been damaged by 4×4’s . Only answer is to make up route with stone so that it becomes less of a “play ground” for inconsiderate off road users.

Action: Monitor and chase council if no progress in next few weeks

Top of Crammer Gutter Field – Still waiting for guidelines from Carl Pickup (SWT) on how they want the drainage to be done. (has been chased on a number of occasions). This has been dragging on for nearly 12mths and needs to be sorted before winter.

Action: Chris to chase SWT again and explain that P3 group not prepared to wait any longer to make this bridleway usable.

Titford Bridge – Needs some clearance work

Factory Lane to Detton-Prescott – Route by gate still gets very muddy and could do with some work.

Action: John to speak to new owners when he gets a chance to discuss how to improve this.

Green Shropshire Exchange Grant

Grant of upto £500 available. We might be eligible but need application in by end August.

Action: Louise to investigate and if looks an option contact John, Chris and Clare to look at submitting an application for Crammer Gutter project.

General Publicity and Awareness

Clare is working on a poster we can use to publicise our work. We should also make sure we put up a Clee View Bridleway Group did this poster when we do a work party.

Action: Clare to circulate poster which people can use to promote our work

Action: Chris to get some “we did this” posters done to put up on routes we work on

Work Parties

We agreed to run a work party on the next 3 consecutive Sundays starting at 10am

Sunday 30th July – A – Hinton route. Meet at Hinton end

Sunday 6th August – Will agree on which routes when people have notified us of availability

Sunday 13th August- Will agree on which routes when people have notified us of availability

Routes  to be covered are –

A – Hinton – General clearance

M – Hill Houses (clear overhanging branches etc.) and K – Catherton Common (clear back gorse and widen route across common from road to 3 springs

Y – Cleeton to Clee Hill – Sign Posts

R – Tittford Bridge – Clearance

Action: Chris to email all and ask that they support at least one work party and let him know which dates they can help and coordinate with John.

Fund Raising

Agreed to hold a fun quiz late Autumn similar to other years

Next Meeting

September to organise Quiz. Meeting date to be agreed closer to time.

 

Route J – Back of The Mounts – Dangerous Gate

The top hinge is broken on the gate on Route J as you come off the common onto the track by the entrance to The Mounts. This is quite dangerous as it is not obvious until you opne the latch and then the top half of the gate falls open. Be carefull. I will try to fix it as soon as I can or if anyone is in the area the hinge is there it just need new screws.