Anybody live near Daventry? Or have local knowledge of Staverton?

----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Bates" <[email hidden]>
Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:18 PM Subject: Anybody live near Daventry?
Or have local knowledge of Staverton?

Quoted message said:

I'm hoping for someone on this NG to have some local knowledge of the area west of Daventry.

I'm hoping to be able to cycle west to east along what is marked on my OS map as a disused railway
line. When it meets a second perpendicular railway line I want to cycle south. But as OS maps
state, any path not marked by a series of red lines is not necessarily a public right of way.

So I want to know...

Are the following disused railway lines open to cyclists?
streetmap.co.ukstreetmap.dllOpen ↗ OS Landranger 151
451500E 263500N

Sadly, there's no public right way along these lines. I've boated along the canal there and
it's a lovely area. However the track betweek Nethercote and Sawbridge is a Byway - i.e. legal
right of way.

Quoted message said:

What happens at streetmap.co.ukstreetmap.dllOpen ↗ OS
Landranger 151 451080E 264615N ie Can the canal be crossed? Or do I need to follow it north to
Wolfhamcote and then take the south track?

No, the bridge is missing.

I did see a route between Wolfhampcote and Braunston on a Sustrans wish list but it's now
disappeared as a 'proposed route' on their website.

Sorry this isn't very encouraging. I suspect that you will find some of the tracks rideable and
ridden, but the lanes are more so!

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:39:43 +0000 (UTC), "Pauline" <[email hidden]> in
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Thanks for replying, Pauline.

I cycled over the train line at the bridge between Grandborough Fields and Nethercote. I'm not sure
why, but I was expecting the line to be surfaced in some way: I was surprised to see it was fairly
well kept grass!

Anyway, by the time I had reached that point, my friend and I were so knackered that we just hit the
A road to Staverton and then went to our planned destination of Badby.
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I know the area quite well. Sadly there is no right of way on the old rail line and it's impassible
in places anyway.

What exactly do you want to know about Staverton, I used to have a relative who lived there so I
know it quite well and have cycled there on several occasions. By-the-way why exactly do you want to
ride on the disused railway anyway.

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on several occasions. By-the-way why exactly do you want to ride on the disused railway anyway.

'Cos it could have been a nice alternative to a road if it *was* a public right of way.
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