Volunteer group helping to keep bridleways open in south shropshire
This is an excellent route around fields and joins back with path C on Jack Mytton Way. No problems so far with going. Thanks to DEFRA/Natural England (for more info on permissive routes see http://cwr.naturalengland.org.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=Home)
Enjoy!
This route from the road is down track to some houses. It goes across the Shropshire Wildlife Trust field which can be wet/boggy in winter and joins with route F (Jack Mytton Way). Sometime cattle are in this field but never had any problems with them (they can gather around the entrance gate). One gate which is a bit difficult without dismounting.
All our labour for bridlepath improvements is voluntary but we need funds to purchase materials and also hire of equipment e.g. digger. It is now looking increasingly unlikely that we will get any real financial support via the council so we decided to run a fun quiz night to try to raise some funds.
After an initial panic that we would not sell enough tickets we ended up with almost more people than we could cope with (90+ and 14 quiz teams). The evening was a great success and most importantly has managed to raise some vital funds which we can now call upon to undertake priority work. Jo and Chris organised the evening with support from other volunteers in the group (including Yvonne, Gill, Clare, Pete).
Many thanks to everyone who supported this event and helped raise some funds.
We will provide an update on the amount raised shortly.
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This area is for any general comments or information that members want to post onto the website and that is not linked to a route that is already listed under the Bridleways heading.
John, Chris had site visit with council and council agreed to contact owner to ask them to cut back growth or to allow the Bridleway group to have a work party to clear this route.
Note – This route was cleared by council some time ago at great expense (had to remove a lot of dumped rubbish etc.). Now overgrown and needs clearing.