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Aberkenfig

This second bypass cut Heol Persondy in two, which was the road from Aberkenfig to Sarn, and reduced it to a footpath.

Balmer See

In winter White-tailed Eagles may also be seen, west of the nature reserve footpath to the old manor house of Dewichow (small holiday village) and the transition to the lake of Krienker See.

Braunstone Gate Bridge

Representatives from the Ramblers Association, The Victorian Society, The Footpath Association, The Civic Society and Leicestershire Industrial History Society were present.

Brookmill Park

The footpath and cycle path in the park are part of the Waterlink Way, which runs through Lewisham and Bromley.

Cefn Cil Sanws

A public footpath and a bridleway at its southern end provide access from the A470 road and from Cefn-coed-y-cymmer.

Cistercian Way

Cistercian Way (England), footpath from Grange-over-Sands to Roa Island in Cumbria, 33 miles (53 km)

Clementi Woods Park

One is greeted by the sweet sounds of birds and insects as he makes his way along the footpath, which is beautifully lined with Acacia, Wormia and Tembusu trees.

Col d'Étache

On the French side the footpath continues until Le Planey, a village of Bramans.

Cutteslowe Park, Oxford

Further south this becomes a footpath from Lonsdale Road, and it emerges near the Cherwell School.

Fan Hir

The Beacons Way long distance footpath runs beneath Fan Hir on the east affording marvellous close-up views of this impressive hill.

Farah Noor Adams

She was raped twice, beaten with a brick then murdered while exercising on a footpath beside the River Kelvin in Maryhill.

Gare du Tréport-Mers

Until 2 October 1938, Le Tréport-Mers was also connected to Dieppe by the Eu - Dieppe line; part of this closed line, between Saint-Quentin-au-Bosc and Eu, has since become a footpath, the chemin vert du Petit Caux (Petit Caux greenway).

Goethe Way

The Thuringian Goethe Way begins in the centre of Weimar, and runs past Blankenhain as a light footpath to Großkochberg.

Great Wishford

The National Cycle Route 24 and the Monarch's Way long distance footpath pass close to the village.

Groudle Lane Halt

It was once a pack-horse lane, and today forms part of the island's Raad Ny Foillan coastal footpath.

H. Jones

His name is also on the South Atlantic Task Force Memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, London, on the wall with the names of the fallen in the Falklands Memorial Chapel at Pangbourne College, and the Parachute Regiment Memorial at their headquarters in Aldershot; he also has a memorial in the cloisters of Eton College and a plaque on a footpath at Kingswear, Devon.

Hatfield railway station

The route of the St Albans Abbey line is now a public footpath, the Alban Way, while the closure of the Dunstable Town line has left Dunstable as one of the largest towns in England without a direct rail connection.

Heswall railway station

The station was previously known as Heswall Hills, as there was previously another station serving Heswall, on the Birkenhead Railway's branch line from West Kirby to Hooton, that is now a footpath known as the Wirral Way.

Levant Mine and Beam Engine

There is also a visitor centre, a short underground tour, and a cliff-top footpath that leads to Botallack Mine.

Lidlington

Lidlington railway station is on the Marston Vale Line which gives good access for walkers along the Greensand Ridge long distance footpath which passes nearby the village.

Lime Kiln Halt railway station

The station can be accessed by foot, climbing the footpath from the nearby Groudle Beach or from above, using the old pack-horse road which now provides limited vehicular access for the railway's staff, largely for delivery purposes.

Matlock Riverside railway station

Access to the station is via a public footpath from Matlock Town, the distance between the two being no more than a quarter mile.

Moel Siabod

This footpath forks, with one route taking a sharp ascent onto the main ridge and one a more gentle route up through an abandoned slate mine and up to Llyn-y-foel from where there are several paths to the summit (not marked on the OS map) via the minor ridge to the east.

Morebath

Morebath Junction Halt, which opened in 1928, was a single-platform halt set among fields in the valley beyond Ashtown Farm, and had no access road, though there was a footpath to it from Ashtown, which extended along the edge of fields to Chilpark on the B3190, close to the main part of the village.

National Trust for Scotland

The charity also organises working holidays called "Thistle Camps" on various properties, with activities undertaken including footpath maintenance and woodland work such as rhododendron control.

Newcastle and North Shields Railway

Services were withdrawn from the Riverside branch on 23 July 1973 and it now has been converted into a footpath and cycle-path known as Hadrian's Way, forming part of both the C2C cycle route (National Cycle Network route 72) and the Hadrian's Wall National Trail.

Norton St Philip

Recently, measures have been taken to slow down the rat run traffic through the village by the installation of bollards designed to inhibit through-traffic mounting the pedestrian footpath.

Peninsula Ultra Fun Run

The route runs from Cape Point to Red Hill Pass, through the Simon's Town Water Catchment Area to Black Hill, via Ou Kaapse Weg across Fish Hoek Valley to Silvermine Nature Reserve, through Tokai Forest Plantation and the Vlakkenberg footpath to Constantia Nek, over Table Mountain to the summit at Maclear's Beacon (1,086 metres above sea level), then down Platteklip Gorge to Kloofnek, via Signal Hill to Granger Bay.

Phil Matson

In 1979 he was honoured with the bronze tablet for 1926, set into the footpath along St Georges Terrace, Perth as part of the WAY '79 sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) celebrations of the colonisation of Western Australia by Europeans.

RAF Coleby Grange

The long distance footpath known as the Viking Way passes less than a mile from the Coleby Grange site.

Ronaldsway railway station

Despite the short walk from the airport, remarkably air passengers do board trains here; it is also a popular drop-off spot for walkers, being close to the Millennium Way footpath established in 1979.

Rumbling Bridge

Taking the footpath east from here will take you right through to the Crook of Devon.

Russell Dumas

A bronze plaque with Dumas's name was laid in the footpath of St Georges Terrace, Perth as part of the WAY 1979 celebrations to commemorate 150 notable figures in Western Australia's history.

Seahouses

The site of Seahouses station is now the town carpark and the trackbed between village and North Sunderland is a public footpath.

Shipton-under-Wychwood

Shipton-under-Wychwood is on the Oxfordshire Way footpath, which can be used to walk north-westwards up the Evenlode Valley to Bruern Abbey and Bledington, or eastwards down the valley to Charlbury.

Stetchworth

Its long western border with Dullingham also follows field boundaries, most of which also follow the course of the Stour Valley Path, a long-distance footpath.

The Stoneman Murders

The hapless victims of the mystery killer, who was never caught, were footpath dwellers in Bombay.

Three Castles Path

The footpath passes through the towns of New Alresford, Hartley Wintney, Sandhurst, Bracknell and Ascot and the villages of Martyr Worthy, Itchen Abbas, Abbotstone, Upper Wield, Ellisfield, Bradley, Greywell, North Warnborough and Odiham.

Top Withens

Such is the attraction to Japanese literary tourists that some footpath signs in the area include directions in Japanese.

Via Krupp

Via Krupp is a historic switchback paved footpath on the island of Capri, connecting the Charterhouse of San Giacomo and the Gardens of Augustus area with Marina Piccola.

West Cambridge

The West Cambridge site covers the area between the M11 motorway, Madingley Road, Clerk Maxwell Road and the Coton Footpath.

West Mount Barren

Visitors are encouraged to stay on the footpath so as to minimise the spread of dieback which is a threat to the native plants of the area.

Winscombe

The railway was closed in 1963, and today the route is a public footpath and cycle track; the site of the former Winscombe station is now the Millennium Green.

Wye Bridge, Monmouth

The bridge is a crossing for the Wye but it is also the start of the Wysis Way which is a long footpath that connects Monmouth to the Kemble in Gloucestershire and to other National footpaths.


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