Just been doing a bit of exploration (by digital map) for an alternate commute home and realised that there's a bridleway about 5km from the house that I've never ridden. Don't know any particular reason why I've not done it other than there's nothing else nearby to link in with it (legal or cheeky).
So what's the closest bridleway to you that you've yet to ride and why?
I have a couple near me that change to foot paths 1/2 way don their lengths. I can't comment if I've ridden them or not.
I have done the flip side though, there is one that's near me, that's a complete waste of space and will never ride again.
About 150 miles......
I have a couple near me that change to foot paths 1/2 way don their lengths. I can’t comment if I’ve ridden them or not.
Few like that near me too. Are you just supposed to turn your bike (or horse) around half way along, and go back the way you came?
Those are the ones that need riding and then highlighting in the ROW review that's going on. I think someone posted a link about it.
About a mile away. I've walked it but not ridden it, because it doesn't really link up to any kind of ride that's worth doing.
I have one that actually starts at my front door. I have never ridden it! Crosses about 10 fields, all with styles and ends at a footbridge where it becomes a 100 m of footpath before reaching the road. It would take 20 minutes or more to ride to that point or 4 minutes by going down my drive and along the tarmac. And the farmer who owns the field which the truncated footpath crosses is a right miserable bastard too!
Back home I've ridden pretty much the entire county, and it's a big one!
Just moved house so the answer is now about 400 yards...
My nearest one is a few hundred yards away, starts just off a main road in a big town, and ends* in a housing estate in the same big town.
*It turns into a footpath which takes you out into the country so it may actually be worth an explore.
About 150 miles……
Knew someone would beat me to it, but about 100 miles or a bit less as the crow flies.
About a mile. It's actually a road leading to an industrial estate and sports centre in town, but the map suggests it is about 100m of BW and the rest FP.
There is however a trail about 7.5 miles away I've never ridden as I'm not sure how rideable it would be. It could be a nice way up the Campsies in nice weather - then again it could be a tussocky nightmare. I'll have to try it soon.
The one across the fields behind our close towards town, the shared use pavement is a more pleasant route.
I don't know. How do I tell one apart from a path?
I'm not sure if people are aware of regarding lost rights of way.
http://peakdistrictmtb.org/project/recording-lost-rights-way-project-2026/
None within at least an hours car drive from my house
The ones across duddon sands. Cos id drown or spend an hour dragging my bike through silt. Either way it'd be shit and my bike would be even rustier
probably the isle of wight - I've ridden there a few times but the cost, and time, of the boat makes it prohibitive. Cowes is about 10 miles from home.
It’s actually a road leading to an industrial estate and sports centre in town, but the map suggests it is about 100m of BW and the rest FP.
Down to The Sidings and Sandylands? Just noticed that. I doubt the businesses down the end would be very happy if you shut the road claiming it was a footpath!
And to our Scottish contributors (clever d***s!), substitute bridleway with trail/track/black dashed line on the map.
When I moved house I got an OS map and set about exploring all the bridleways within a 15 mile radius, I've claimed them all apart from one out near Eccleshall. (staffs) I went there to do it once and it was a walled track all totally grown in with nettles, trees & spiky bushes so I jus left it.
but There are so many tracks, paths, trails, roads, sides, cuts, bits of woodland, forgotten roads and back lanes that no-body cares about and need not to be marked on a map and can all be quite happily traversed by mountain bike!
Down to The Sidings and Sandylands? Just noticed that. I doubt the businesses down the end would be very happy if you shut the road claiming it was a footpath!
That's the one. Never realised the Dales 300 ride was so cheeky from the outset. 🙂
I wonder if it's just a mistake on the mapping. CDC are usually pretty anal about that sort of thing and I doubt any solicitor worth his salt would miss that when a business unit got sold.
I'm assuming it must be an unadopted road. Would explain the massive potholes.
None within at least an hours car drive from my house
Chinny reckon. Bridleway map here:
https://www.bridlewaymap.com/index.html
Not great as a map to navigate - but good to see the quantity of Bws in toto.
About 800 metres from my front door. Looks flat as a pancake on the map. It does appear to go past a pub though. Hmm.
I checked the BW that I started this thread about and it's marked up as a footpath on OpenStreetMap so it doesn't appear on that map. I've corrected this on OSM.
One or two other BWs around us also appear to "stop" in the middle of nowhere, a bit of checking on OpenStreetMap and the "missing" section of bridleway is categorised as a service road (it's access to an old farm) so however the map has been generated, it hasn't picked up the point that there's a legal ROW for bikes along it.
There is one half way up the hill from the village which I haven't tried yet - about 500m from the door. I have ridden one further along the same ridge a while back though (before moving here) and it was a clag-fest so I haven't had the urge yet!
Going to give it a go if we get a nice dry spell over the summer and see what it is like I think. It would allow me to link all the way out to Parkamoor with barely any road, which would be nice!
Loads within a mile of me and I don't touch them because the horsey folk wreck them so they're unrideable on a bike and you couldn't even walk them. Shame as they often link up the large amount of common lands that are nearby. So what do I do, I go on the nice footpaths instead that are nearby them. If anyone moans I say, "well see over there, that's my supposed right of way. Try riding a bike on that!" #mybikeisnotahorse.