Last week Mrs BWW and I walked on the Breidden Hills on a lovely clear day, just a day to be out, we missed reaching our objective, the usual one most walkers aspire to when tackling the Breiddens. This was partially due to the missing way, partially our dawdling because of the pure joy of the quality of way and of course the missing way marks.
My fear that I might be off the righteous way was also a contributory reason and excessive searching for navigational detail, not because I felt guilty of trespass, but because I wanted to have full grasp of the facts, if some belligerent rustic popped up from behind a hedge or a quasi rustic erupted from 'chez nous' with outraged notions of 'you walkeers'.
Now before I bore you all, with the idea that I am beating drum too often hammered.
This anomaly was discovered partially as an interest in these hills posted by Mel and I may outrage Jimbob because I do not intend to gather together a group of ardent, activists and stand with placards on the NW flank of Kempster's Hill in pouring rain.
There are some very interesting points to be learnt about the suspicion that this particular bit of path may be on the counties B or C list of RoWs, why no waymark or finger-post on the N access point? When 40 yards away another RoW is signed and furnished in exemplary manner.
So why does one of bit path take precedent over a path that could add quality of way to hundred of miles of LDW or just a local walk? The reason is no one can see that possibility because this path has a piece missing as a lostway, but that piece is in Powys, Wales and rest in Shropshire.
We had another experience, that evening that could add to a learning curve for those, who administer our access network, however to explain it I would probably have to write several 1500 word articles, as well as roll out yards and yards of map to show facts and details, which add to the economic force that is the access network.
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or a little more, read my final post on Mel's post. Please do not feel too hijacked, I really do hope you enjoy your walk in the Breiddens and I think if you pick up on the clues I left for you they may add to your knowledge of our landscape and how we can explore it.
As a little more of a clue, it is easy to see how one can get from England to Wales using the Llantisilio bridge, the Severn Way uses it, so why do I think the Maginnis Bridge is so important? I think that opinion gained by one's own reasoning so much more important than that explained and perhaps I do not hold all the answers, actually this little excursion showed me another good reason. (That from the view off Pritchard's Hill)
The N end of Kempster's Path; SJ 32081 14482
S end of same; SJ 31411 14350Lostway and Wales/England boundary; SJ 31529 14198 only 250 yds of lostway but a marker for the Maginnis bridge if you have the imagination to see it.
So rather than 1500 word posts that will lie in the recesses of the dusty archives of walking forums back topics, I offer discussion, if there are any interested.
We are still talking about how much we enjoyed the walk we did and it has nothing to do with the above subject, although the evening in the Admiral Rodney was much enlivened by the story I told based on above facts and premises told to a visiting retired school teacher from Lytham St Annes, who was staying at the nearby Brimfield House. This because the subject was found amusing, conspiratorial and a little derogatory, if seen from the point of view of a certain minority with a well developed sense of self importance.