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gunwharfman

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The Old Way long distance wak
« on: 17:37:54, 02/03/18 »
I have never heard of this walk until today, its in my part of the country, the South of England.

http://britishpilgrimage.org/old-way/

Have you walked it?

Dovegirl

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Re: The Old Way long distance wak
« Reply #1 on: 20:02:38, 02/03/18 »
Sounds an interesting LDP.  Without a detailed map of the route I can't say how much of this I've walked. But living in Hove, I do a great deal of walking in the area between Emsworth and Rye.

John Walker

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Re: The Old Way long distance wak
« Reply #2 on: 21:22:18, 02/03/18 »
I’m sure it will be a very interesting future long distance walk. I'll definitely try walking some of it when it comes into existence.   :) It seems to be the British Pilgrimage Trust which is promoting this, based on a route shown on the Gough Map http://www.goughmap.org/map/. I’m fascinated by this mysterious map of the British Isles dating from around 1350. The BPT claims that the ‘Old Way’ is the only non-road shown on the whole map but I can see quite a lot of lines linking places which seem to be marked quite similarly. Maybe I’m just an old a cynic (and I am a paid-up member of the atheist tendency)  ::) but I see an attempt here to take over what is undoubtedly a fascinating historic and prehistoric track and imbue it with some sort of overriding religious or at least ‘spiritual’ significance. As I understand it, that is what happened when a Victorian cartographer claimed the title ‘The Pilgrims Way’ for that ancient trackway that is now officially the North Downs Way.



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National Trails completed: SWCP, Thames, SDW and NDW

Stube

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Re: The Old Way long distance wak
« Reply #3 on: 21:34:26, 02/03/18 »
Having walked many of the named paths, I must have effectively walked the trail west of Jervington, apart from the section around Chichester where the route seems rather circuitous.

I think it's a much better way to Canterbury than the NDW - for the reasons given!

Well found GWM - the snow's good for something!

JW The SDW is NOT the Pilgrims Way - that's the NDW plus St Swithin's Way.

 

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