Bridleway No.4 – Broxhead Farm Road to Junction with BW46 & BW54

Updated August 2020

Pic 1 - signpost to the by-way near Broxhead Trading Estate
There is a prominent Shipwrights Way sign by a prepared pedestrian crossing point on the road close to the entrance to the Broxhead Trading Estate

 

Pic 2
The track cuts diagonally through woodland, entering the Broxhead Common Nature Reserve ...

 

Pic 3
... before arriving shortly at a junction of tracks by the cricket pavilion

 

 

Pic 4
BW4 turns right.  There is a finger post.

 

Pic 5
The track continues with Broxhead Farm and its buildings fenced on the right, and open-access to Broxhead Common on the left – passing the concrete base for one of the Shipwrights Way sculptures (of a Nightjar) which was removed in 2016 after vandalism

 

Pic 6
Coming out into the open between fields ...

 

Pic 7
... we reach a bridle gate (Pic 7) and the junction with BW47.

 

Pic 8
BW4 (and the Shipwright’s Way) turns left here along a wide track ...

 

Pic 9
... and shortly meets the junction with BW46 and a gate through to BW54 which is a continuation of the Shipwrights Way.