Date will be Saturday 30th from 10:30: https://doodle.com/poll/d2hehkgrv7k7cq4a
I'll put precise details (meeting point etc) on the wiki and announce that in a follow-up email. Jerry On 6 December 2017 at 14:58, SK53 <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I'll shortly be sending a link to a Doodle poll to try & select a suitable > time for a Midlands footpath mapping meeting after Christmas. > > In all likelihood, the meeting will be centred on Coton-in-the-Elms in S. > Derbyshire, a few miles S of Swadlincote and SE of Burton-on-Trent. The > location is easily accessed from the A42 and A38. > > This area is odd: many paths in woodland areas of the National Forest have > been mapped in great detail, but there are still lots of missing footpaths > as well as ones missing detail, particularly centred on Coton-in-the-Elms. > Detail in the village is again very patchy: some shops and schools, but on > a flying visit yesterday I added 4 pubs. > > The main caveat about the area is that most of the pubs are either not > open at lunchtime or don't do food. The one that does is perfectly > pleasant, but seems to be under new management and has mixed reviews > recently (Bulls Head <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5266821772>, > Rosliston); and unfortunately The Black Horse > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5266509202> in Coton-in-the-Elms which > is in the Good Beer Guide only does filled cobs (sandwich rolls to those > uninitiated in E. Mids dialect) and may not be open for lunch. So we'll > probably have to take our chances with the former. > > The geology is Mercia Mudstone, and much of it is arable, so likely to be > muddy and claggy underfoot. > > This umap > <http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/prow-around-coton-in-the-elms_184957> > shows the status of footpath mapping in the area in August. I'll update it > shortly & add Warwickshire & Staffordshire paths (extracted from my EMids > PRoW data). > > Regards, > > Jerry >
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