Went for a trip out to Teversham Fen today.

On the way out there I found some interesting looking paths in Fen Ditton which led along the course of an old railway line. This was a bit of a mixed bag - it looked like some care had gone into putting the paths in and making the area nice. It also looked like it's gone downhill since then - various bits of abandoned junk, beer cans, etc which seemed a shame in such a nice setting. The path ended (as far as I was concerned) at an old humpback road bridge, crossing the path of the old railway line. The bridge was covered in graffiti and there were a couple of burnt / dismantled motorbikes underneath it. I was not eager to hang around in the area and found a path leading back to the road. Seemed like a sad waste of a nice area, really. At least I was able to map (some of) the paths there.

My real destination was a pair of footpaths near Teversham Fen. I've recently put some work into extending waterways down into this area using Yahoo coverage and NPE. I knew there were paths down here and the area looked quite sparse on the map, so I wanted to fill it in. I set off down one of the paths, got some advice from a dog walker, traipsed through muddy fields for ages. Myself and my bike got very gummed up with mud - the bike picked up a vast amount even though I wasn't sitting on it. Very sticky mud, it reminded me of chocolate icing, although I didn't eat it.

Once in Teversham, I cycled down through the village, looking for the Southern end of the other path which I knew to exist - the dog walker had told me it came out somewhere down there. Finally found it and looped back up to the A1303, although along the way I discovered some more paths still to map - this always happens when I go exploring!

I've now uploaded the footpaths and done some enhancements to the detail in the area, drainage ditches, streams, woodland, etc. Hopefully in due course this area of the map will look rather less bare!