It was raining pretty heavily on Sunday and yet the revamped public footpath between Yarborough Road and Churchill Avenue showed no sign of surface water, even during “February Filldyke” weather.
North Lincolnshire Council had the walkway improved not too long ago and that has paid off for the relatively few folk who use it.
Some long-serving residents in this part of town know it as Clothes Hedge Footpath. For in decades past, before the St Helen’s Road housing estate really took off, housewives hung out the washing thereabouts.
Groups of ramblers can be seen from time to time traversing this very narrow public footpath. Good look to them in helping to retain this right of way, but there are more walkable alternatives very close by via St James’ Road and O’Hanlon Avenue.
If I’m anything to go by, “Joe Public” would not fancy traversing Clothes Hedge Footpath, even through the heavy, boggy stretches have gone.
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It wasn't technically the 'housewives' Scribs.......it was the residents of Brigg workhouse, which appeared to have a laundry.
Before St Helen's Road was named as such, it was, because of the practise of hanging drying washing on the hedges known as Clothes Hedge Lane.
When I lived in a house on Bigby Road, one clause in the deeds gave me the right to 'drive pigs, sheep and cattle down and along Clothes Hedge Lane'
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