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UNVEILING OF PLAQUE TO COMMEMORATE 'PHILLIPS PATH'



This footpath runs from opposite Brook House to the Level Crossing
Although this path serves the Mount Bures Community, it is located in the Parish of Bures Hamlet.

The Footpath was adopted by ECC on 8th June 2017
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MOUNT BURES FOOTPATH SOCIETY:

FOOTPATH WALK - SUNDAY 06 OCTOBER 2019
UNVEILING OF PLAQUE TO COMMEMORATE 'PHILLIPS PATH'

Local Community Remembers Driving Force behind Newly Designated Footpath between Mount Bures and Bures Hamlet.

The idea of the late Pauline Phillips, founder member of the Mount Bures Footpath Society, the path provides a safe passage from Mount Bures
to the Sudbury/Colchester Road to access local buses and the amenities in the nearby villages of Bures Hamlet and Bures St Mary.
The path was created by local volunteers in the late 1990s with the support of local councils, the Ramblers Association and the Dedham vale and Stour Valley Project.
It was formally adopted as a Public Right of Way in 2017 and is now used every day by local residents and visitors, including children walking to school in Bures.

Pauline Phillips' role in creating this path was recognised in a short ceremony, including members of her family, which was held at the start of the path at the junction of the Colchester Road and Brookhouse Lane at approximately 1130 on Sunday October 6.

Ian Woodman
Chair of MBFS


Nigel Chapman: Chair of Dedham Vale & Stour Valley Project

Nigel Chapman: Chair of Dedham Vale & Stour Valley Project

Jenny Wright, Clerk to Bures Hamlet Parish Council

Chris Phillips
Nigel Chapman: Chair of Dedham Vale & Stour Valley Project
Unveiling the plaque
Nigel Chapman: speech
Nigel Chapman: explaining the plaque
Chris Phillips: reading a poem written by Pauline

 


Photographs courtesy of Hildegard Hill and Lynn Baird
Published 19/10/2019