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[bruce1530]

50 mile trip this morning, and picked up one tile that had been eluding me. South of Kilmarnock, on the stretch between the prison and Crosshands, There’s only one road through it, and that’s the A76. Several times I’ve been down that way, stopped at the crossroads, thought “there’s a tile half a mile north of here”, but the traffic’s just been too crazy on the A76. One time it took me the best part of 5 mins just to cross over.

But today - Sunday morning, during lockdown - it was a lot quieter. Cars still doing silly speeds, but far fewer.

And I got lucky - a tractor pulling a trailer of cut grass pulled out in front of me, and trundled up the road at about 20mph. I sat behind it for a few minutes to get into the square, stopped, turned back, and got onto the quiet country roads again.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Three new tiles this morning to the north of me.

I need to get three tiles to the south of me. Unfortunately, they are on private land and the landowner is quite quick on his feet (according to a club mate who wanted the same three tiles), "Get off my land!" Which is fair enough as it is his land. And I'm sure he wouldn't take kindly to a polite request as it would no doubt encourage other tile-seekers.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Now confirmed new max square is 17x17 not 19x19. Just drawn a single larger 18x18 square on the map to highlight the ones I need to expand to that size. Will try and get the ones I need next week.

 

[tallliman]

Three new tiles this morning to the north of me.

I need to get three tiles to the south of me. Unfortunately, they are on private land and the landowner is quite quick on his feet (according to a club mate who wanted the same three tiles), "Get off my land!" Which is fair enough as it is his land. And I'm sure he wouldn't take kindly to a polite request as it would no doubt encourage other tile-seekers.

Are there no footpaths going through there?

 

[bruce1530]

Don’t you wish you lived in Scotland. No such hassles here (well, maybe some...)

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Are there no footpaths going through there?

And walk the bike through? I'm not sure if there are public footpaths through there. Just had a quick look on Google Street Maps and can't see signage - some of the entrances have PRIVATE, some have nothing, none have Public Footpath that I can see.

EDIT - looked at Map Data on Open Street Map and all access is marked as Private.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

And walk the bike through? I'm not sure if there are public footpaths through there. Just had a quick look on Google Street Maps and can't see signage - some of the entrances have PRIVATE, some have nothing, none have Public Footpath that I can see.

If you look on veloviewer you can select OS mapping, that will show if there are any rights of way

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

If you look on veloviewer you can select OS mapping, that will show if there are any rights of way

Thanks for this. Just checked on there and no, there are no rights of way. Frustrating.

 

[tallliman]

Quite frustrating that! I think I'm lucky here that there a few truly difficult squares.

 

[HLaB]

Don’t you wish you lived in Scotland. No such hassles here (well, maybe some...)

Did they ever sort out the Ann Gloag thing? IIRC Her estate was the one exception to 'right to roam'

 

[Noodle Legs]

12 tiles got this morning, taking my max up to 19x19. One tile was a bit iffy to get which involved a private track and prying eyes but it appears to have been got so we’ll say no more about it eh?

 

[13 rider]

16 new tiles on today's ride total 4451 max cluster up 24 to 2003 .
Extended my Northern edge to above Derby and Nottingham ,not far off a max square increase from 35*35 to a think 37*37

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Picked up 5 tiles today & went from a lowly 9x9 to a slightly less lowly 11x11 but there is one still eluding me, not sure how to get to it, the green road is a dual carriageway part of the A1 I really don't fancy riding on it, I suppose the only way is up the farm lane then plead ignorance if get stopped, but I'm not keen on doing that.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

22 new tiles today which increased the max cluster by 15 to 3,921.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

@tallliman I presume this is the Wittering square you are on about, if we can't get it on that road, we can take a walk through the fields on the public path to the right.