Garendon Park, Loughborough - Public Access Developments

I’m publishing this post to provide interested users with a link to my website’s Garendon page, where you’ll find some useful information on public access to the Garendon Park development. Just follow the link.

Amongst other things on the website page, you’ll find a detailed description of which footpaths are currently accessible, as well as some history of the development and what is planned for public amenties there. 

I’ll aim to provide regular updates over the next few months as the developers progress the construction of the new road, since this is likely to have a significant effect on public access. The plan shown below (Fig. 1) was published at the start of the development project by Persimmon, and indicates the intended layout of the Park after development is complete.

Feel free to have a look round the rest of the website while you're there - there's plenty of interest to look at, and a lot of useful stuff available to download as well...

Why have I bothered to posted this 'taster' on Blogger, you may ask ? The answer is - Indexing…

For some reason, the 'Indexbots', those tireless little digital robots which endelssly trawl the net for new website content to index,  seem to be particularly drawn to Blogspot posts. These appear quite consistently to get  indexed virtually overnight; conventional websites can take much longer to update. 

Unfortunately none of this applies to 'Googlebots', which seem to studiously ignore all of Google's own products (e.g. Blogspot and Google Sites).  I've no idea why this is; given that it means that anyone who uses Google as their principal search engine (i.e. most of the online human population!) will actually be missing out on a substantial amount of new content, it seems a rather strange business model to adopt.....why not 'vote with your mouse' and  use one of the others...or even a combi-search product. That way you'll be sure of not missing anything novel.

For anyone with a Google sites website/blog, or contemplating setting one up, it’s well worth noting this discrepancy for future reference…but don't expect to fathom the nature of the Google indexing system - many have tried and failed in the past...including, I suspect, Google employees themselves (Does anyone really understand it ?)

First published 15.6.25

Revised 20.6.25

Figure 1: Garendon Park & Estate: Facilities Plan (Wm Davis/Persimmon 2015)


 

 

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