Hope many can enjoy the Millennium Walk

As noted in the Advertiser of March 24, there is now available an updated Millennium Walk leaflet that incorporates the link across Battlemead Common that opened on April 1.

All of this new link will remain open until after the annual Boundary Walk on October 2, thus providing a circular walk on Battlemead during these months.

Paper copies of the new leaflet are obtainable from the Maidenhead Arts noticeboard and the Rio Deli café both in Maidenhead Library.

Copies have also been deposited on the community noticeboard in Nicholson’s Walk shopping centre in Maidenhead.

Electronic versions can be downloaded from the websites of Maidenhead Civic Society and East Berks Ramblers.

The Millennium Walk that runs from Hurley cross country to Maidenhead Riverside connects at both ends with the Thames Path National Trail and is a joint project of the two societies.

We hope that the small car park, included in the most recent masterplan for Battlemead Common, will be open before too long to facilitate access to the new common, especially for disabled people and also to help relieve the pressure on both the Boulters Lock and Cookham car parks during the warmer months.

Until such time as this happens the nearest car park is that at Boulters Lock.

A walk along the Thames Path will bring you to Battlemead Common that now has attractive signboards detailing what can be seen.

At present the north wetland on Battlemead is, unusually for April, completely dry, perhaps due to the recent warm weather.

We hope more rain and more flow in the White Brook will soon restore this habitat.

Both the Civic Society and the Ramblers are very grateful to the Lions Club of Maidenhead for the Maidenhead Lions Platinum Award, commemorating Her Majesty. the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, that has facilitated the publication of the new leaflet.

ANN DARRACOTT Maidenhead Civic Society