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Redhill Drive, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 6AF

The Image to Sandy Way has recourse to steps as the gradient steepens alongside the back garden wall of the neighbouring house. It gets steeper, too: see Image for the next view along the path.

Not the most conspicuous of paths, this is a public footpath heading steeply down to Sandy Way. See Image for the next view along the path.

Just before 7am we look along Jessopp Close, a short, fairly steep cul-de-sac off the crest of Redhill Drive just as it heads down to meet Wimborne Road. We can glimpse the roof of one of the bungalows above the parked cars. The sign is of a design that became prevalent in Bournemouth around 1990 and was in use for most of that decade. Many are starting to look a bit shabby now, and the blue border of this one has faded somewhat, though the white surface is intact unlike many. This is photo no.215 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

Looking down the steep steps that head down to Sandy Way from Redhill Drive on this public footpath. See Image for a view up the steps from near the bottom, and Image for the next view on the path behind us.

Looking up this steep public footpath to Redhill Drive from near the bottom of the steps. See Image for the view down them, and Image for the view behind us onto Sandy Way.

This public footpath ascends steeply up the wooded side of Sandy Way, bridleway O07, bound for Redhill Drive. See Image for the view towards us from the footpath ahead; and Image for a view along Sandy Way. Both links provide further links to photos along the paths in all three directions.

Sandy Way is a lane some 630m in length which forms public bridleway O07 between Wimborne Road and Headswell Avenue. At each end, it is a gravel road with a few dwellings but the majority of it is a very rural feeling track in a steep sided, linear wood. We see it here at its northern end, as it comes out on Wimborne Road, where even numbers 4-12 can be seen on the right. See Image for the next view along the route, with links to further pictures all the way to the other end.

Looking down the last few steps of this public footpath as it reaches Sandy Way, a bridleway, near its northern end. See Image for the view up the steep steps behind us, and Image for the view up the path from across the road, with links to photos along the full length of Sandy Way.

Reflectors and black-and-white highlighted kerbstones would not ordinarily be installed on such a minor back road. These, though, are a reminder of the fact that this section of Wimborne Road was the main thoroughfare northward out of Bournemouth before the Whitelegg Way, parallel and to the northeast, was built in the late 1980s. This is still a bus route and gives access to the few side roads between Redhill and Northbourne roundabouts, but apart from that it sees very little traffic nowadays.