“The Greenways Project”


See the new website dedicated to the project: www.fodgreenways.co.uk

Since we held our Open evening on 30 September much has happened and the purpose of this newsletter is to bring you up to date on progress so far.

Our Consultants, Philip Cooke and Isabel McHarg, have mapped all of the bridleways in the Forest of Dean District. The resulting map really highlighted how fragmented is the network. From this crazy spider’s web, Isabel with the support of Ceri Watkins from the BHS has mapped a cohesive route as follows:

1.      The Heart of the Forest Greenway – this is a linear route from Dymock to Bream from which the following networks provide circular routes

2.      The Dymock Greenway Network – showing  community routes covering Queens Wood, Oxenhall and Kilcot

3.      The May Hill Greenway Network – covering Newent Wood and around Mayhill

4.      The Longhope & Mitcheldean Greenway Network – covering Longhope and Mitcheldean, a key area which gives access to the north and south of the district

5.      The Ruspidge Greenway Network – which may be renamed but covers Ruspidge and Soudley

6.      The Bream Greenway Network – covering Nagshead and Bream

The Committee gave approval to this proposed network on 4 November and agreed with the Consultants that it was vital to our credibility with funders that we should be successful in this first phase. Taking their advice we have put investigation of other localities into a possible future programme given the tight time frames.