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2023 News
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Phase 1 of TCW complete
We've done it! All 75 miles of the Telford Coronation Walks have been waymarked, the maps, directions and gpx files for all 23 walks are on the website, together with a downloadable spreadsheet on which you can record your progress. There are just a very few tickets left for the walk and celebration in Lilleshall on Saturday . See link. The image shows a waymark put in today on the Woodside walk.
Telford Coronation Walks- update
Work on the 23 routes is progressing well,. We have taken delivery of the waymarks and posts We have now waymarked more than half of the walks. . All the walks have been planned and all but 2 of them have been approved. We have: a celebration event planned on December 30th; Descriptions and maps for most of the walks are available.
2023 AGM
The 2023 AGM took place on Zoom on November 21st. We were pleased to welcome 2 new members onto the committee.
Trail Video
Telford College have produced an overall trail video and five 30 second shorts . Click the image to see the link for the video page
Green Spaces are Go Grant Events.
As part of the Green Spaces are Go grant we have arranged for 2 kissing gates to be installed in Lilleshall, 2 Nordic Walking Sessions, and 3 walks in Lilleshall , See the events page for details.
Relay Winners presentation 2023
On July 16th Trophies were presented to Shropshire Canicross and Broseley Joggers for winning the open and mixed classes respectively n the annual Telford T50 50 Mile Trail Relay Challenge.
Relay Challenge Results 2023.
Congratulations to Shropshire Canicross and Broseley Joggers who were fastest in the Open and Mixed classes of the Relay Challenge respectively.
Coronation Walks Number 9,
Before departing for home on June 18th Kate (see Anniversary item) had expressed a wish to walk the Ercall, so we invited her to check out the new Wellington - Ercall walk which is no.9 in our new series of Telford Coronation Walks.
Most of the walk is already waymarked, but Kate has now placed the initial waymark to start the walk in Wellington Market Square.
Most of the walk is already waymarked, but Kate has now placed the initial waymark to start the walk in Wellington Market Square.
Fifth Anniversary Celebration
On June 17th , two walks met together at Leegomery Community Centre for a light buffet and the cutting of the celebration cake, during which there was a preview of a new video to promote the trail that will soon be available for all to see.
Thanks to all who supported our celebration, particularly to Kate for making the journey to be with us again.
Thanks to all who supported our celebration, particularly to Kate for making the journey to be with us again.
The anniversary gates
During the celebratory anniversary walk, anticlockwise along stages 5 and 4,2 , Kate Ashbrook, a Vice President of Ramblers GB and Patron of the Walkers are Welcome Towns Network, officially opened one of 2 new kissing gates that have been co-funded by the T50 and Telford & Wrekin Council. This one replaced an awkward stile , the other one replaced a really difficult "stile" at the end of Wenlocks Wood.
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