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Sway Footpaths 10, 13 and 14 updated 10 July 2016

Number
Location
Reports as MS Word documents - click below
Sketch maps as gif files - click below
Photos as jpg files - click below

1

Birchy Hill to Coombe Lane

Notes on Sway footpath 1 on 17 Sep 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 1 UPDATED

Counter-intuitive route to take at the edge of the lane and forest - point 2

Detail of the route through the undergrowth by point 2

Bridge over the stream

Route across marsh from stile to bridge - going west UPDATED 08 Jan 2012

2
Chapel Lane to Pitmore Lane

Notes on Sway footpath 2 on 09 Oct 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 2

Electric tape to separate footpath F from paddock P and limit horses' access to poisonous acorns

View from stile S5 towards stile S3

Gate on Pitmore Lane - footpath is through gate F

3
Mount Pleasant Lane to Shirley Holms (open forest)

Notes on Sway footpath 3 on 09 Sep 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 3

View from stile S1 towards stile S2

Start of path in oak-lined avenue

Wooden footbridge

4
Barrows Lane to Silver Street

Notes on Sway footpath 4 on 09 Oct 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 4

North start of footpath - duck under the bar

Point 2 on sketch map, seen from the south

Point 3 from the south

You are now approaching Sway

6
Mount Pleasant Lane to Sway Road

Notes on Sway footpath 6 on 12 Sep 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 6

Start of footpath at north on Mount Pleasant Lane

Where footpath 7 meets footpath 6 - point S2 on sketch map

Dog-leg turn towards the south end where lane meets barbed wire

7
North Common Lane to Sway footpath 6

Notes on Sway footpath 7 on 09 Oct 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 7

Northern part of Sway footpath 7

Southern part, looking south

South end where footpath 7 meets footpath 6

8
Silver Street to Sway footpath 9

Notes on Sway footpath 8 summer 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 8

Stile S1 and electric fence warning

View from E on sketch map of electic fences towards stile S3

View of stile S4 from point E on sketch map

Stile S5 and electric fence warning

9
Flexford Lane to Silver Street  (Byway Open to All Traffic)

Notes on Sway footpath 9 on 09 Sep 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 9

Where the footpath turns at point 2 on map - seen from the south

From the north, the footpath narrows and takes east path at point 3 on the sketch map

From the south, the footpath narrows at point 4 on the sketch map

10
Adlams Lane  (bridleway)

Notes on Sway footpath 10 on 10 July 2016

Sketch map of Sway footpath 10

Typical tree-lined track

Gate at point 2 on the sketch map

Gate at point 3 end of footpath start of enclosure

11
Northover Lane to Crabbswood Lane

Notes on footpath 11 on 07 Oct 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 11

Stile S2 take care here

Point 6 before and after being cleared

Point 8 from the east - footpath goes to the north side

12
Vaggs Lane to Arnewood Bridge Road

Notes on footpath 12 on 01 Aug 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 12

Stile at point 3 on sketch map

Fences at points 4 (foreground) and 7 (background)

Point 10 from the north - footpath follows route F

13
Widden Bottom  (bridleway bridge)

Notes on Bridleway 13 Widden Bottom 01 Aug 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 13

Bridleway bridge from point 1 on sketch map

View out across the open forest from point 2 on sketch map

14
Durns Town  (bridleway and bridge)

Notes on Bridleway 14 Durnstown 01 Aug 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 14

Start at B3055 point 1 on sketch map

Bridleway bridge at point 2 on sketch map

Example of Railtrack ragwort

15
Agars Lane  (Byway Open to All Traffic: from Arnewood Bridge Road to Silver Street)

Notes on Agars Lane 01 Aug 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 15

Typical oak-lined avenue part of Agars Lane

Delightful footbridge at point 5 on sketch map

Dumped tyres - the only small blight

Superb views across to Sway Tower

16
Mill Lane  (Byway Open to All Traffice - from Pitmore Lane to South Sway Lane)

Notes on Mill Lane 27 Aug 2011

Sketch map of Sway footpath 16

Start at Pitmore Lane

Start at South Sway Lane; unmarked - opposite Flexford Mill

Ditch running across at the South Sway Lane end of Mill Lane