Icknield Way #3

There has been quite a lot of discarded cans and bottles appearing on the verges which were only cleared recently. As time is limited tomorrow, the plan is to start at Westfield Rd roundabout and head...

Picking along the B488, starting at Vicarage Road and heading towards Stocks Rd. If time permits, we'll carry on along towards the windmill car park. Nine more bags filled today. A huge haul from the ...

Revisiting B488 between Westfield Rd and Vicarage Rd. It only took 2 hours to cover both sides of the road today and with only 3 bags filled. Frequent visits to this stretch of road will undoubtedly m...

Day 3 continuing from where we left off yesterday. Limited time today so only managed 2 extra bags of litter to add to the tally. However, recovered an old traffic cone, lorry tyre carcass and an old ...

Continuing from yesterday along B488. 15 bags of waste collected today. The lack of any sort of verge at certain points makes it difficult picking up litter.

B488 between Westfield Rd and Vicarage Rd from 10am onwards. So much litter, I didn't get half way towards Vicarage Road. Eight bags, and other larger stuff, gathered. It's amazing how much nature gr...

A litter pick along the length of Northfield Road starting at 9am from the B488 Upper Icknield Way roundabout Nine bags collected, 6 general waste and 3 of recyclables.

8.30 start from the roundabout on B488 Upper Icknield Way, working towards Station Road on one side and then back down the other to leave the collected waste in the layby near the B488 junction. Five ...

Walk along Westfield Rd and Marsworth Rd as far as the recreation ground. One carrier bag filled.

A litter pick down here is long overdue. 17 bags filled! Two fly tips reported on Fix My Street (tyres and scaffolding parts).

Starting at Pitstone windmill car park @ 9am. To clear the south-west verge first (the one without the footpath) up to the turn off to Ivinghoe Beacon, before turning around and clearing the opposite ...

Weather permitting - 9am start from roundabout at B488 and Westfield Road, working north (ish) towards junctions with Vicarage Road and Stocks Road. If time permits, will continue along towards the wi...

Litter pick along the length of Northfield Rd starting from the junction with Upper Icknield Way.

Checking if there have been more Fosters cans dropped. Another bag filled. Lots more Fosters can, McDonald's packaging and crisp packets. There are about a dozen cans so far into the hedge that I cou...

Unplanned litter pick with the dog. Huge number of Fosters cans discarded. Some too deep into the hedge to reach. Huge number of Fosters cans discarded. Some too deep into the hedge to reach. One bag ...

Despite being litter picked less than 2 weeks ago, Northfield Rd has accumulated lots more. 9am start from the roundabout on B488 Upper Icknield Way. Six bags collected, together with a tyre and a l...

Unplanned litter pick while walking the dog. Covered Westfield Rd from the junction with Warwick Road down to Marsworth Road and Vicarage Road as far as the last bin on the recreation ground. One bag ...

Starting at 9.30am from the B488 end of Northfield Road and working towards Station Rd before heading back along the opposite side of the road. 10 bags filled.

8.45am start from Pitstone Windmill car park working up along the east side of the B489 to beneath Ivinghoe Beacon and then working back down the west side of the road to the start point. A bag of lit...

Despite being litter picked recently, there is a lot of fresh litter building up along this road. Start point will be the junction below Ivinghoe Beacon working down towards Pitstone windmill car pa...

Church Road, Vicarage Road, Marsworth Road and Westfield Road. One bag filled.

Dog walk from home armed with bag and litter pickers. Mostly around St Mary's Church, Pitstone and surrounding woods. Surprisingly lots of cans and plastic bottles, three bags of dog poo and a host of...

Completing yesterday's litter pick. Starting 9.30 at the Stocks Rd junction and heading towards Vicarage Rd and then onto Westfield Rd. Another 10 bags filled today and all stacked in Vicarage Road a...

Starting from the foot of Ivinghoe Beacon and working down towards Ivinghoe, then left at the junction towards the windmill car park and following the road along towards Stocks Road, up to the junctio...

The dog and I did a circular route taking in Westfield Rd, Marsworth Road and a small part of Vicarage Rd as dmfar as The Pightle. 3 carrier bags worth of litter, twice emptied into the bin on the rec...

Ad hoc litter pick with dog walk One bag of waste collected

To clear up after the quarry visitors. Five bags collected and left in the layby for Dacorum council.

A walk with the dog turned into an unplanned litter pick around St Mary's Church, Pitstone and the surrounding woods. Lots of recyclables recovered in the form of beer cans and bottles, Red Bull cans ...

Litter pick along B488 starting at 9am from the junction by Ivinghoe Beacon working south towards Northfield Road roundabout at the junction with Westfield Road - time permitting. 20 bags filled.

Dog walk and ad hoc clear up Two bags filled, lots of beer bottles, quite a few N20 cartridges too.

To clear any litter in Northfield Road, Upper Icknield Way and the footpath by Northfield Road. 2 bags of general waste, 4 of recycling. There was more litter there, but ran out of bags!

An overdue sweep of this area to clear any litter.

A random dog walk around the Vicarage Road and Church Road area, armed with litter pickers and black bag. One bag with a variety of items, McDonalds waste, Stella cans and even a pair of condom wrappe...

To clear any litter left by visitors to the Pitstone quarry. Someone beat us to it this morning and most of the waste had been bagged and stacked. I collected 3 further bags from along the verges and ...

A clear up after a big attendance at the Pitstone quarry Five bags filled. Bucks council asked to collect the waste.

Some beer cans and bottles were left here a few days ago. Intention to clear these all up. All done.

An overdue litter pick of Westfield Road from the 30mph signs up to and including the roundabout. Two bags filled.

No route planned, the intention is to walk out with the dog and litter pick as we go starting from St Mary's church, Pitstone. 2 bags filled, largely on Vicarage Road between the junctions of Church ...

A litter pick and dog walk combined. One large carrier bag filled, mostly with stuff from the ditch which runs alongside Marsworth Road.

To pick up in the windmill car park, the paths in the field, hedge adjacent to Upper Icknield Way and the path alongside Pitstone allotments. One bin bag filled with waste. Surprised there was so much...

9am start from the windmill car park covering both verges from the start of Ivinghoe and, depending on time, up to the roundabout at Westfield Road. Four bags in total. Three general waste and one of ...

A litter pick starting at the 30MPH signs and working both sides of the road up to and around the roundabout at Upper Icknield Way.

A revisit of last week's clearance to pick up new recyclable stuff which has started to appear on the verges. 2 bags of recyclables recovered.

Both verges starting from Westfield Road. Two bags collected, one from each side. The south side was challenging to clear as the tractor which originally had trimmed the verge had compressed litter i...

Revisiting this stretch of road to pick new litter and also that which we didn't have time to pick last time. Starting at 9am from the roundabout at the junction with Westfield Road and heading east ...

An overdue clear up. A bag full of litter collected with lots of recyclables. Eight bags of dog poo collected and disposed of in the red bin in Church Road.

Regular clear up One carrier bag filled to the brim. Several Red Bull cans collected at various locations.

This stretch is overdue a litter pick. One carrier bag filled with the usual stuff.

Continuing along Upper Icknield Way towards Ivinghoe. Start point will be determined by where we finished off yesterday. 17 bags of litter collected over the 2 days. Some help today provided by parlia...

Beginning at the roundabout at Westfield Rd and working east towards Vicarage Road.

11.30 start from the Church Road gate in Pitstone.

Usual litter pick 1 bag filled. Fireworks debris found again.

Weekly pick up Two bags today. Covered the windmill field, but most litter came from the windmill car park and some verge picking along Upper Icknield Way at the junction with Stocks Road. Also picked...

Periodic tidy up. One bag filled from the dog walking field, Westfield Road (southern end), Icknield Way roundabout and the path parallel with Northfield Road.

To clear the items dropped or thrown over the weekend. One bag filled.

Weekly litter pick Half a bag of litter collected together with five bags of dog poop. Collected some further litter along Marsworth Road and Westfield Road

Loop commencing from Westfield Road, Northfield Rd footpath, Aldbury Nowers, Aldbury village, Ashridge, Incombe Hole descending into Ivinghoe and finishing with a pick around the windmill field and ca...

A clear up along the bottom end of Westfield Road and all around the roundabout at the junction with Upper Icknield Way. One bag filled, quite a lot of glass bottles and a fairly equal number of ciga...

Weekly litter pick One carrier bag filled, mostly from litter found in the car park. Pleased to report no bagged dog poop seen.

A clear up along the Ridgeway footpath within the Aldbury Nowers woods.

A trawl over this otherwise recently-picked area because there have been a few items of litter dropped here since the beginning of the week. A carrier bag full of stuff, mainly plastic bottles, a McDo...

Where safe to do so, litter collection along the verges of the B489 Upper Icknield Way between Ivinghoe and the junction with the Westfield Road roundabout. Start time will be 12pm midday on the gree...

10am start from Vicarage Road footpath. Dry start, but wet finish. One bin bag of waste and a carrier bag of 14 bagged dog poops all now appropriately disposed of.

Picking litter on Westfield Road from the 30MPH signs up to and all around the roundabout on Upper Icknield Way. Four bags of litter and a crate load of cans and bottles recovered. Huge haul of beer ...

There is currently no through traffic on Stocks Road so the plan is to have a clear up from the junction with the B488 Upper Icknield Way right up to the Pitstone Hill car park. If time permits, there...

A clear up of any litter and bagged dog poo. By and large the car park was fairly clear of litter except for cigarette ends and a Tesco receipt! Around the field I was able to half fill a bin bag with...

To continue with the clear up of this stretch of road between Ivinghoe and Chapel Road, Ivinghoe Aston. Six bags of waste collected today. Two were from around the junction of Chapel Road and Icknield...

Passed by the car park on Monday and saw quite a lot of litter had gathered. A walk to the Rose and Crown on Sunday through the windmill field also revealed a variety of stuff had been discarded here ...

9am start at the Pitstone Windmill car park. To clear up the path along the B489, past Town Farm and as far as Beacon Road. This turned out to be far more of an undertaking than expected with 8 bags c...

With the good weather recently there has been a steady flow of visitors to the quarry, many of whom have left waste on the grass verges where they park their cars. The plan is to clear all this. One f...

There have been reports recently of lots of rubbish being dropped along the bridleway between Ivinghoe Golf Club and Chapel Lane, Ivinghoe Aston. The plan is to start at the golf club end and work tow...

To undertake a litter pick of all the paths within the windmill field to include the path adjacent to the Pitstone allotments and also the windmill car park on the B488 Upper Icknield Way. 9am start....