Book One Updates

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Page 4 - last paragraph. Instead of crossing the stile at the end of the narrow, enclosed path, you can now follow the new, smooth cycle track through the trees ahead where it then continues along the route of the GMT to the post by the large manhole cover where the new track goes left but the GMT bears right (page 5).

Page 5 - last three lines. Before you go down the steps you will find yourselves crossing a new road by way of two gates.

Page 6 - first line. The narrow and difficult path has been replaced with a lovely, broad and easy path.

Page 14 - paragraph 3 - line 3. The mentioned stile can now be found next to a large gate.

Page 14 - bottom line. Instead of running between fences the grassy track now has a hedge on the right.

Page 16 - line 4. The stile has been removed from the bridge. line 12. The Horns Lodge has closed. line 18. The double stile has been replaced by a ladder stile. line 22. The plank has been replaced by a proper bridge.

Page 21 - last paragraph. This now reads: Keep along path to a gate at the edge of the wood and enter a camp site. Stay ahead between trees, go to the right of a wood and soon strike diagonally right to drop down to a gate. Enter another wood and stay on path as it drops down.

Page 24 - last paragraph. This now reads: Follow the road down and after 300m, before the road bears left, turn right into a gate entrance and cross the stile into the field. Follow the path as it runs briefly beside the hedge on your left then keep ahead across field before dropping steeply down to cross a stream. Climb ahead to the entrance of a path into the wood. Stay on the path and you will reach a slightly precipitous footbridge over a stream running out of the pond ahead. Cross the dam and turn right along a track, keeping the water on your right. At the top of the lake turn right down the path that drops down to a stream which you cross and then continue as the path gently climbs out of the valley.

Page 28 - nine lines from the bottom. Having gone through the kiss gate by a gate by the pond, the route now is to go diagonally right across the field to find the gate into the next field.

Collect another Meridian Marker by following this detour brought to our attention by the Ravensbourne Residents Association.

Page 56 - line 8. Instead of turning right off Beckenham Lane up Highland Road, stay ahead and after about 100m fork right up Farnaby Road and follow that for 600m where you go left to stay on Farnaby Road. The shiny marker, erected as part of the Millennium celebrations, will be found on the side of the road after 150m or so, exactly where the green meridian marker line crosses the road on the map on page 57. There is a small marker in the pavement on the other side of the road. Continue ahead along Farnaby Road and at the end turn right onto Ravensbourne Avenue. Follow it and you will re-join the trail shortly before turning left onto Crab Hill.

Last updated - August 2023