[Talk-GB] Stiles in the Peak District missing a stile tag

[Tim Saunders]

My understanding is that the British Standard for stiles (BS5709:2018) stipulates that they should ALL have at least one upright handhold.  Not wishing to shell out a few hundred quid for the BSI document itself, the documents here are a reasonable surrogate https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/3328/Guidance-on-stiles-and-gates.  In practice, many do not come anywhere near the standard of course so I am not wishing to detract from the idea of tagging.

Regards,

Tim S

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My father has ambitions to visit the Peak District this summer, but now needs to avoid stiles (or at least those which are difficult for him to negotiate). I therefore had a look at stiles around Castleton & quite a few lack the stile tag to show the type of stile.

I therefore looked at the Peak District as a whole and around 1000 stiles miss this tag (about 20%). In many cases I'm sure that we collectively can improve this information from old photos, new walks etc.

The relevant overpass query is here: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/15pl.

A follow up would be to ensure all ladder & stepover stiles have step counts.

One thing Dad remarked is that stiles with an upright member as part of the stile are easier as he can hold on to it throughout clambering over the stile. I think these are commoner in Leicestershire where the upright bit is painted yellow as a way marker. I'm not aware of any way of tagging these.

Jerry