Dirt Road 4x4 /Tractor track NOT Street!
Travelling on Easter break with my 4x4, where my Waze app is always set to allow 4x4 dirt roads & to include long ones I have really never had so much fun on what I thought & expected as normal country lanes, but seriously my app gave me the real shortest route from Wells across towards Rockbourne.
From Bury lane around Broad Chalke, Wiltshire through to the A354 I was taken down a road I now see was classed as a Street for a short stretch that had a tiny 6x4 inch bridleway sign on the left hand side (Google Street View), looked a bit pot holed but with a few buildings we had no worry of going on. We passed Ox Drove and Knighton Wood Farm, ending up coming out at a dual carriageway where we could not cross this & carried on turning left instead to Salisbury.
My concern is that the nature of this track fast became impassable for anything but a 4x4 or tractor and there was no way even I would have attempted to turnaround. So I have taken the liberty of changing that first section from Street to Dirt Track unless some editor would like to make it a dead end as far as a Street classification is concerned up to where Google shows it as a dead end to the buildings. I tell you becoming dusk driving through ten feet long pot holes almost as wide as the car and 10 inches deep, I had confidence in my car but anything else would have easily come a cropper.
Trying to look on Street View you can only look at each end of where I went, as there is nothing recorded, but does that make it a real private roadway? the newer gate at the A354 end did have a sign stating Private but where does one obtain that legal information while on the road as signs may just be there as a deterrent & at the Street end there was nothing.
I will attempt to add some views to support my case.
The one track view was at its best!
Have read both these related topics.
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Road_types/U ... 2.A0.C2.A0
viewtopic.php?f=833&t=177153&p=1326912& ... 4#p1326912
Apologies if I have made any errors on what and where to post this incident, if only to protect others.
From Bury lane around Broad Chalke, Wiltshire through to the A354 I was taken down a road I now see was classed as a Street for a short stretch that had a tiny 6x4 inch bridleway sign on the left hand side (Google Street View), looked a bit pot holed but with a few buildings we had no worry of going on. We passed Ox Drove and Knighton Wood Farm, ending up coming out at a dual carriageway where we could not cross this & carried on turning left instead to Salisbury.
My concern is that the nature of this track fast became impassable for anything but a 4x4 or tractor and there was no way even I would have attempted to turnaround. So I have taken the liberty of changing that first section from Street to Dirt Track unless some editor would like to make it a dead end as far as a Street classification is concerned up to where Google shows it as a dead end to the buildings. I tell you becoming dusk driving through ten feet long pot holes almost as wide as the car and 10 inches deep, I had confidence in my car but anything else would have easily come a cropper.
Trying to look on Street View you can only look at each end of where I went, as there is nothing recorded, but does that make it a real private roadway? the newer gate at the A354 end did have a sign stating Private but where does one obtain that legal information while on the road as signs may just be there as a deterrent & at the Street end there was nothing.
I will attempt to add some views to support my case.
The one track view was at its best!
Have read both these related topics.
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Road_types/U ... 2.A0.C2.A0
viewtopic.php?f=833&t=177153&p=1326912& ... 4#p1326912
Apologies if I have made any errors on what and where to post this incident, if only to protect others.
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