In early 2017, the PRoW officer for East Cheshire, Evan Pedley, asked if our Footpath Projects Team would install finger posts and waymarker posts on certain paths around Jenkin Chapel in Rainow Parish. He highlighted posts for paths FP 7, 8, and 10.
Roger Fielding, Duncan Learmond, Ken Hobbs, Chris Munslow.
Six of us turned out for the day to transport the posts to their sites, carry the tools and dig the holes. And despite appearances (taken advantage of by the author's descriptions above), all six worked hard on a cold day, chiselling holes in bouldery ground, compacting backfill around posts, placing staples at stiles and clearing some brush and branches.
On FP 7, two waymarker posts were placed either side of the brow on Fox Hill and a finger post was placed by the semi-collapsed pasture wall at the missing stile crossing point.
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The west waymarker, FP 7. -
Duncan Learmond, Ken Hobbs, Roger Fielding, Chris Munslow -
The east waymarker post. Ken Hobbs. -
Finger post on FP 7. Centre picture, beyond the building, our team are placing a finger post for FP 8
Some tree branches and ground vegetation were cut back to clear the route through light tree cover descending to the wall. A tangle of old, trampled fence mesh was made safe by rolling it up and depositing it clear of the 'stile'.
A finger post was placed for FP 5's intersection with FP 7.
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Finger post at intersection of FP 5 with 7 at Todd Brook bridge crossing. -
FP 7 crosses the pasture to the wall left of centre. FP 5 goes right.
A finger post was erected north, and clear of, the farm building plot, to show the route for FP 8. Disks were added to the existing 'post' south of the building to add clarity to the routes of FPs 6, 7 and 8.
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Finger post for FP 8 viewed north....... -
.....and south.
Footpath 10 was walked northwards to determine the commonly used route between sedge-filled boggy ground, and to find the options for crossing the stream at Green Stack. To aid finding the former option when going south at the wall corner, a fallen waymarker post was re-established twenty metres south of the road. A finger post was placed near to where the road crosses the stream.
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Approaching Green Stack.
Chris Munslow, Duncan Learmond -
Roadside finger post, viewed southwards towards higher waymarked ground.
Lower branches were taken out from fir trees alongside FP 10 approaching a stile beside Green Stack.
This project was completed in 1 day by 6 ECR Footpath Project Team members who, between them, worked 25.5 hours (excluding lunch break). Helen Battilana, Roger Fielding, Ken Hobbs, Duncan Learmond, Chris Munslow, and myself, Brian Richardson, attended.
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