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Eagle-eyed hyperlocal cartographers [hellooo!] can’t have failed to have noticed the latest Wivenhoe map that has appeared overnight opposite The Greyhound.

Proudly displaying all the present and correct local points of interest, the fine map work is all the making of Wivenhoe First, the local organisation that helps to promote Wivenhoe businesses.

Getting lost along the main drag of The Avenue and the High Street can’t be hard – locating exactly where the bowls club is situated is slightly trickier.

Wivenhoe is very much a North / South sort of town – you walk from one end to the other, usually from pub to pub. We’re not exactly a North Essex tourist trap either – and thank heavens for that – but all local knowledge is good.

Two years in the planning and preparation (cripes) and the Wivenhoe First map is certainly a welcome addition. I rather like the idea that a local organisation, and not the soulless town planners from Colchester Borough Council instigated it.

Wivenhoe Town Council has given full support to the scheme; planning permission was of course sought from the big boys over at CBC. All funding came from the money raised in producing the Wivenhoe Business Directory.

Additional leaflets detailing the local businesses along the route are also planned to be made available in nearby holders. Incorporating all local shops and traders en route would have been great, but sadly in these ever changing economic times, the town is rather transient right now.

I understand that the bollards at the end of Queens Road were discussed in the planning.

Blimey.

Never Mind the Bollards, etc, here’s the Methodist Church.

Oh Lordy.

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