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No way around and only one accessible gate!
After surveying an aerial view of this location on Google Maps, I thought I'd try a loop around it in my manual wheelchair as my Sunday morning dog walk.
There is an accessible, elongated kissing-gate entrance into the park, and the path around the perimeter is of the hard, gravelly variety. Obviously, this is always tough going in a self-propelled manual chair, but - aside from a few gentle slopes and an occasional camber - it is fairly level.
Unfortunately, the path does not extend all the way around the park perimeter. It comes to a halt at the southwest corner. The small kissing-gate they have at this point is inaccessible for wheelchairs, which means one cannot even go out onto Warwick Road and use the pavement instead. In fact, all the gates (aside from the car park gate) seem to be of this type, and thus inaccessible to anyone with wheels.
As my chair will not go across grass, I had no choice but to turn around and go back the way I'd come. Perhaps just a small frustration in the grand scheme of things, but it's always disappointing to see issues like this when the location would otherwise have been accessible.
After surveying an aerial view of this location on Google Maps, I thought I'd try a loop around it in my manual wheelchair as my Sunday morning dog walk.
There is an accessible, elongated kissing-gate entrance into the park, and the path around the perimeter is of the hard, gravelly variety. Obviously, this is always tough going in a self-propelled manual chair, but - aside from a few gentle slopes and an occasional camber - it is fairly level.
Unfortunately, the path does not extend all the way around the park perimeter. It comes to a halt at the southwest corner. The small kissing-gate they have at this point is inaccessible for wheelchairs, which means one cannot even go out onto Warwick Road and use the pavement instead. In fact, all the gates (aside from the car park gate) seem to be of this type, and thus inaccessible to anyone with wheels.
As my chair will not go across grass, I had no choice but to turn around and go back the way I'd come. Perhaps just a small frustration in the grand scheme of things, but it's always disappointing to see issues like this when the location would otherwise have been accessible.
