Rode Clent last night for the first time in a couple of weeks and found some new gates restricting access, the main track up from Pedmore Lane to 'Freeride Ridge' on Wychbury Hill is now blocked with barbed wire on the gate and the gap in the hedge filled in, also the driveway opposite Wassell Grove Lane from the roundabout has new locked gates, barbed wire and new Private Property signs, always new this wasn't a public right of way but never been challenged in 6 years of riding there. Anyone know if there are new owners that are less than welcoming?
Bike Forum
Clent riders - Hagley estate new owners?
-
Posted 5 months ago #
-
The driveway from opposite Wassell Grove has always been a bit iffy, I've been stopped a few times up there, some time they were nice and polite, others they gave me the full "get orf my land". I've always just been piolite and asked them which way they would like me to depart.
Not sure where you mean on Pedmore lane, do you mean the track almost behind the Foley Arms? Or the one at Wassell Grove end (passed the rugby club, turn left and it is on the left after about 200yds)?
Posted 5 months ago # -
Or the one at Wassell Grove end (passed the rugby club, turn left and it is on the left after about 200yds)?
That's the badgerI know the other has always been private but I have passed people on foot, on horseback and in vehicles and never been challenged
Posted 5 months ago # -
Haven't been up there in a while, I thought that was a footpath? (I normally hop over style at the bottom, ride up the footpath to the side of the disused farm/barn up the back of Wychbury, over the metal style at the top and turn left down the hill through the trees)
Posted 5 months ago # -
The Pedmore lane end has been blocked for some time. There was some coverage in the Local paper about it a few weeks back. It boils down to the fact that it's not actually a right of way into the wood from that end, or something.
Similar sort of situation to what's been happening in the woods between Wollaston and Gibbet lane, the landowner has suddenly decided that enough is enough for some reason.
I think both have been used for so long, that it's assumed that they're rights of way. Still, I don't let it stop me....
At least though, it doesn't seem to be purely mtb'ers that are being 'discouraged'.
Posted 5 months ago #
Reply
You must log in to post.
