Shock/Horror The Ordnance Survey map is wrong.

            The dotted green line (bridleway, horse permissible) is The Wadeway, a prehistoric and once the only route from the mainland to Hayling Island until Victorian times.

I was staying at the Langstone Harbour Hotel, next to North Common, (bottom right) and after a very hot day trudging around Chichester I'd made my way to the Royal Oak pub (the blue glass sign in the top left) and thought to save my aging, achy feet, rather than take the trestle bridge I'd take the low tide shortcut of the Wadeway, trusting the always famously reliable Ordnance Survey Map.
However It is not a viable option. having been dissected by the ill-fated, long derelict Portsmouth and Chichester Canal in the 1820's, seen on the map as the New Cut.
Trusting my map and assuming it was do-able, I struggled out as far as I could to the old natural drainage channel, just to the north of the cut, tentatively one foot in front of the other over viciously sharp, wild oyster beds that had colonised the old raised footpath..and stood there for about half and hour, the one lone idiot, thinking the tide would recede and the path would appear.
Too hot, too old and too knackered I had to retrace my steps and take the bridge. 
But Wow, that pint at the hotel bar, looking back over the scene of my defeat tasted fantastic!
   

Taken in: UK / England / Havant District / Langstone (show map)

Taken on: December 17, 2024

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Chichester Harbour

The Wadeway

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

West Sussex

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