Use of rough AND smooth surface materials for twin offroad paths?

[sheddy]

Do we know of any UK rural routes that cater for horses, bikes, mobility scoters and walkers ?

I need some evidence (links, photos etc) to lobby our council who are proposing a new rural path. It would be good if this could be built as hard surface one side (bikes and mobility scooters) soft on the other (horses and ramblers)

See The role for surfacing in rural areas from https://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/
(photo of twin paths at the end)

and please move if wrong section

 

[Tim Hall]

Bits of the Cuckoo Trail in East Sussex (Hailsham area) are like that, or at least used to be. I haven't been down there for a while. It's a disused railway, so plenty of width available.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

St Cuthbert's Way in southern Scotland. Rough for horses, smooth for feet and wheels.

 

[Crackle]

The Wirral Way. One side is a grit path for walkers and cyclists and the other a, mostly soft path for horse riders.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Lakeside Way round Kielder Forest is described as multi-user route. In theory it caters for them all but in practice it's a compromise... and that compromise must mean a massive maintence liability (AKA bill) for the FC

 

[Flying Dodo]

The Sewell Greenway, which is part of NCN6 heading north-west out of Dunstable. It's an old railway cutting which is just over a mile long. That has a soft sandy side for horses, and most of it has a paved path for walkers & cyclists which then becomes a hard compacted sand path through a stretch of nature reserve. The horses generally stick to the soft sand side. You can see the softer side on the left hand side in this picture (that's me leading at the front):-

In this photo, which is further on, there's a hard tarmac coating for cyclists which covers most of the Greenway, and you can see the muddy, grassy area for horses to go on.

 

[annedonnelly]

Parts of the Sustrans no 10 route as it heads towards Shiremoor from Middle Engine Lane.

The right hand track is tarmac and the left gravel. I don't know whether it was deliberate or just evolved somehow. It's not a very long stretch.