I needed some exercise and daylight yesterday, so I hauled myself down the NCN to Stow-cum-Quy to explore the footpaths there. Found one from Quy Mill across to the village itself (intimidatingly, this one went through a working farmyard, which I walked through looking anxiously around for irate farmers). There was a tiny footpath in Lode that took me to the main road, which I walked down to get to my next port of call...

A "footpath" running mostly North out of Stow-cum-Quy was already stubbed. I knew there was a rather large gated road / track running up there (saw it on Yahoo imagery) and had assumed the footpath went either parallel to that or went off in some other direction. It turned out that the (enormous) concrete track actually *was* the footpath for some distance, until it eventually shrunk into a normal-sized path some way along. The footpath went really badly signed at that point and I ended up taking a path that looked probably private (there's a really big house there and I think I strayed into its grounds a bit too far!). I backtracked from the road and mapped the correct route.

Then followed a muddy path up beside Quy Water, through the Anglesey Abbey grounds and out at Lode Mill. I found a ridiculous number of paths in Lode itself, my GPS trace looked like a web spun by a caffeine-influenced spider. I think I got most of the paths within Lode but then had to stop and go home as it was getting dark and I had work to do.

Whenever I'm out mapping footpaths I always seem to find a load more I didn't know existed - will I ever run out?