Posted by: dav « on: Today at 15:35:39 » Insert Quote
Quote from: tonyk on Yesterday at 22:34:25<blockquote> Sounds like a new challenge for Slogger........unaccompanied of course.
</blockquote>Not for me as it's just about all tarmac.
Not True - with all the flagging a greater proportion of the PW is paved.
Outside of Worcester at the start and Brighton/Shoreham and the finish the only major tarmaced stretches are through Birmingham and Bristol. The late Trevor Anthill who devised the Monarch's Way avoided roads wherever possible, sometimes zig-zaging wildly to do so.
Its use of minor footpaths is what makes navigation difficult in walker hostile counties such as Somerset - often there is no visible route on the ground. Landowners frequently removed all public footpath signs let along named trail waymarking.
The difference as you cross county boundaries can be amazing.