river wye towpath

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hi,

there apparently is a towpath that runs the length of the wye, has anyone
walked it?

Wye do you ask ?

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hi,

there apparently is a towpath that runs the length of the wye, has anyone
walked it?

I don't know of a towpath, but there's the Wye Valley Walk.
http://www.wyevalleywalk.org/english/

I've walked the southernmost bit between Chepstow and Tintern many
times. It mostly stays high up the side of the valley - a nice walk,
but not suitable for towing anything!

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there apparently is a towpath that runs the length of the wye, has

anyone

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walked it?

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I don't know of a towpath, but there's the Wye Valley Walk.
http://www.wyevalleywalk.org/english/

I've walked the southernmost bit between Chepstow and Tintern many
times. It mostly stays high up the side of the valley - a nice walk,
but not suitable for towing anything!

Upstream of Tintern you can mostly walk along the river bank on one side or
the other certainly nearly as far as Ross.

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"Tim Jackson" <[email hidden]> wrote

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there apparently is a towpath that runs the length of the wye, has

anyone

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Quoted message said:

walked it?

Quoted message said:

I don't know of a towpath, but there's the Wye Valley Walk.
http://www.wyevalleywalk.org/english/

I've walked the southernmost bit between Chepstow and Tintern many
times. It mostly stays high up the side of the valley - a nice walk,
but not suitable for towing anything!

Upstream of Tintern you can mostly walk along the river bank on one side or
the other certainly nearly as far as Ross.

'Twas mentioned in Jamie Owen's program on T V this evening. Apparently
there is a tow path on both sides of the river !
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"Tim Jackson" <[email hidden]> wrote

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> there apparently is a towpath that runs the length of the wye, has

anyone

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> walked it?

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I don't know of a towpath, but there's the Wye Valley Walk.
http://www.wyevalleywalk.org/english/

I've walked the southernmost bit between Chepstow and Tintern many
times. It mostly stays high up the side of the valley - a nice walk,
but not suitable for towing anything!

Upstream of Tintern you can mostly walk along the river bank on one side

or

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the other certainly nearly as far as Ross.

'Twas mentioned in Jamie Owen's program on T V this evening. Apparently
there is a tow path on both sides of the river !

lol exactly why i asked - i posted this as i watched it

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Bill Grey
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I grew up in Ross and used to walk the river banks fairly often. There
are footpaths either side of the river south of Ross towards Kerne
Bridge, which would have been used by horses/oxen/men towing barges,
which used to navigate the river before the roads started to improve in
the later nineteenth century. My mother has a print of the river near
Ross showing commercial craft with sails using the river. In times
within living memory, there still used to be coracles using the river,
although not in my time.