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Eastern Green Corridor - view from Alderminster Road to
the east - Dec-2001
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Eastern Green Corridor
- view from Alderminster Road to the west -
Dec-2001
| Eastern Green Corridor is a narrow
green corridor, but with lots of trees and
a good variety of building types.
It is the one of the narrowest of the green corridors identified by Coventry City Council, following the ancient stream through the original Lower Eastern Green village.
A few historic buildings survive along Unicorn Lane and Dial House Lane, plus Dial House on the other side of Lower Eastern Green Lane.
1889 Map - for larger view click on map
Image produced from the http://www.old-maps.co.uk service
with permission of Landmark Information Group Ltd. and Ordnance Survey
However most of the building is modern houses and blocks of flats, but
they have been constructed in fair variety, and are often nearly hidden
behind the trees within the corridor, or in their own gardens.
A pleasant walk results, but for the purists this has a break in the
middle where the corridor is too narrow to support a path, and at each end
where private land has not allowed a direct path to Lake View Park or out
into Tile Hill Wood.
Notes on Paths in Eastern Green Corridor
It is now possible to walk on either side of the stream from
Alderminster Road to the western end of the corridor at Goldthorn
Close. A few points to note however are:
- The path on the southern side of the stream from Alderminster
Road to Eastern Green Road starts as
a continuation of the good path from the east, but then becomes
a thin grass trod and vanishes into thick woodland. Stay in
the wood till the next close, but then join the close and follow
the paved path in front of the houses facing the stream. At the
next close, in theory there is a public footpath to the final close (Tiber Close),
but it has never been a path and the wood is impassible - instead take
the tree lined path up the close and use Troutbeck Road.
- The path from Eastern Green Road to Tilewood
Avenue is now waymarked and apart from a few sometimes muddy bits it is
a good path.
- The path on the southern side between the
stream and Tilewood Avenue is also now waymarked, but as well as a few
sometimes muddy bits, fallen trees make it necessary to crawl under
them. The meandering makes it seem a long route, and you may
prefer to use Tilewood Avenue, but the path by the stream deserves time
to explore.
- The path on the northern side between the
same bit of stream and the houses on Unicorn Avenue is designated a
public path, but hard to find beneath the brambles and nettles.
Locals tell me they have walked it in early spring, but it is not
waymarked. If you are walking downstream on the Northern side, it is
probably better to escape up one of the closes and use Unicorn Avenue
over this stretch.
- You should definitely use Unicorn Avenue from Alspeth Lane to
Alderminster Road - note the historic buildings and the preserved
ancient hedgerows, and enjoy that this is no longer a through
road.
Good for Dogs rating: 
A good walk, and worth exploring, but rather narrow in parts and with
unfenced roads to cross |
