Category Archives: Milton Keynes

Path progress near Newport Pagnell

The paths around Chicheley and Sherington were in better condition than when I last visited last September. Continue reading

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Paths muddle near Milton Keynes

If the farmers in Chicheley and Sherington really want to divert some paths they must put them in good order first, then we’ll consider them. Continue reading

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Claim your greens!

This evening I spoke at the Milton Keynes Local Access Forum about the government’s threat to town and village greens. I said that it’s vital for communities to claim their town and village greens now, before the government’s Growth and … Continue reading

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Walking with your MP

On 8 August I joined Iain Stewart, MP for Milton Keynes South, and the Milton Keynes Group of the Ramblers for an evening stroll through Charle Wood and along the Greensand Way, near Woburn.  The four-mile walk was in fact in Bedfordshire, … Continue reading

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Making path surveys fun

The Ramblers Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and West Middlesex Area, of which I am the footpath secretary, last week discussed a new way of doing path surveys. We have over a hundred volunteer path-checkers in our territory, each takes on one or … Continue reading

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