Green Lanes - Our Heritage
This is the old packhorse 'road' that leads south to Douglas. The start is on the right hand side of the coast road (heading south) just after the tram crossing at Ballure, Ramsey. The first part goes straight uphill, up a stony track. It has become a regular route used by off-road motorbikes because they enjoy the challenge of a scramble up the stony track.
Although this may not look particularly steep, it is. Pack horses would not have struggled to get up this track, but it is difficult for heavy motorbikes to get a grip, and the back wheels often rip out stones from the surface sending them down the track. Eventually this will degrade this track into a steep sided rock gulley if motorbikes continue to use it. In a few years from now it will look very different to this.
This part of the track is not too badly affected at the moment, but continual overuse will change this. This ancient track is showing all the classic signs of becoming severely damaged, but is this going to be allowed to happen?
This is the old packhorse 'road' that leads south to Douglas. The start is on the right hand side of the coast road (heading south) just after the tram crossing at Ballure, Ramsey. The first part goes straight uphill, up a stony track. It has become a regular route used by off-road motorbikes because they enjoy the challenge of a scramble up the stony track.
This is the Old Douglas Road from Ramsey which starts at Ballure. The track goes due south past the Ballure Plantation linking up the Hibernian, the Corrany, Glen Mona, Dhoon Glen, Laxey and eventually Douglas. The track fell out of use when the coast road was constructed. It has now treated as an obstacle course for off-road motor bikes who use it regularly, and who are now stripping off the grass covering which protects the track.