Our Work Parties clear overgrown footpaths and install and maintain kissing gates, footbridges and way-mark posts so that A Coventry Way and the 21 Circular Walks remain open for walkers to enjoy.
See what they have been up to to over the years.
Older articles can be found on the Archive page.
The task for today’s four-strong work party was to clear the ACW enclosed path that runs round Birchley Hayes wood.… Read more
A footbridge on Walk 7 of our 21 Circular Walks, situated between Bubbenhall Wood and Weston Lane, has a rotten centre plank in need of replacement.… Read more
Following reports that part of the route of one of our 21 Circular Walks was seriously overgrown and that a footbridge was in quite poor condition we set out to assess the work needed.… Read more
Responding to a request from a regular footpath user our work party took a look at a stile near Breach Oak Lane.… Read more
We used the “The Big Help Out” bank holiday to carry out some stile repairs near Birchley Hayes wood.… Read more
Again, in readiness for the forthcoming Annual Challenge event our work party set out to trim back the hedges alongside the footpath as it emerges onto Lower Road in the village of Barnacle.… Read more
Repairs to a wobbly stile on a path in Corley Moor meant carrying tools and pushing a wheelbarrow on a half-mile trek from the closest roadway.… Read more
In preparation for the Annual Challenge event in April our four-strong work party cleared a stretch of the roadside footpath along the Stoneleigh Road.… Read more
The work party on this day was to deal with the overgrown stretch on the A route of Walk 15, “The Canal Trail”, near Ansty and Barnacle, and to find the hidden waymark post.… Read more
When ACWA Treasurer John Aylmer was indisposed for a while earlier this year some fellow A Coventry Way colleagues took it upon themselves to help him out by tidying his allotment.… Read more
It took four us of nearly four hours to re-install the double gates at the “The Laurels” on the Fillongley Road, about four miles from the finish of the Challenge. Our good deed for the day.… Read more
The volunteers who set out for what should have been a straightforward bridge repair found rather more than they had bargained for… Read more
Work Party sets to work to clear the Way in preparation for the 2020 Challenge.… Read more
Another little challenge for the work party volunteers, on Walk 17 Route A near Fillongley.… Read more
Further improvements were made to the path leaving Hodgett’s Lane sloping down to Greenway making the complete path adequate for now.… Read more
Improvements were made to the path leaving Hodgett’s Lane sloping down to Greenway.… Read more
We further improved the path leaving Hodgett’s Lane to slope down to Greenway… Read more
A work party is interviewed in support of the Coventry City of Culture bid… Read more
Clearing the ditch and building up the path leaving Hodgett’s Lane heading towards the Greenway… Read more
A work party cleared most of the path near start of Walk 16 and repaired a stile on Walk 18.… Read more
A work party cleared the “Behind the hedge path” on the east side of B4455 south of Bretford. A week later we cleared 3 sites on Circular Walk 18.… Read more
A work party further improved the path leaving Hodgett’s Lane to slope down to Greenway, just before the bridge over Greenway – part of Walks 3/3A.… Read more
A small work party re-built the two “stiles” each side of bridge over the river, one field north of Lavender Hall Fishing Lakes.… Read more
We built a new flight of steps and partly cleared the muddy path from Hodgett’s Lane to near the bridge over Greenway – part of ACW & Walk 3/3A.… Read more