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Yes, that's a most unusual footpath signs, are all Bexley ones like that?

dg writes: they used to be.

It's annoying that Barnet for example don't publish a Right of Way map online.
Good on Bexley for also showing the path number, making it much simpler to report problems accurately on paths that are definitely rights of way. Didn't help the Woodlands Farm situation of course, but part of the problem seems to be that it's not unambiguously a ROW.
when do we get the rest of no.12
I was on this path back in May trying to access a square. Of note the first kissing gate is navigable by bike. The gate in the middle of the walk is not. (I'm not a local)
Glad I came here today.

I have been semi-regularly running Green Chain Walk Section 3, and am aware of the Woodlands Farm issue; but I had never realised that there was an alternative other than signed GC 'diversion' along Bellegrove Road (/ A207) and Wickham Street.

I will be sure to give Footpath 245 a try the next time I am out.
Inner Londoners (cockneys) in east and south London moved out to the suburbs and took their love of cockles, whelks and jellied eels with them. As a child who was allowed to stay up late on a Saturday night at a suburban social club it was always a joy when the seafood man turn up before 11pm with a basket. The paper man would also turn up too, offering the opportunity to buy tomorrow’s news (of the world or Sunday Mirror) today. Not sure the latter is still a thing but a few years ago I was in a pub in Bromley and was pleased to see the tradition of the seafood man was still alive and well.

See also the boom in the last few years of in traditional pie’n’mash shops (with eels and liquor) in suburban east and south-east London, Essex and Kent.
A rights of way map is both interesting and helpful. I'm pleased to see that my borough - Redbridge - does have one on its website. One of the more obscure ROWs there that I've walked ('From Virginia Gardens in a S direction'), is rather like Bexley's footpath 245 - hemmed in between open land and the backs of houses with no direct access to either. But no seafood stall ...
I walked this path last year while doing the Green London Way section 2. The entrance is quite hidden. When I was there it was a swarm of stinging insects. A delightful few hundred yards.
Strange coincidence, I walked this path only last week as part of the Green London Way.
Not all footpath markers in Bexley are unusual :-)










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