How far can you get walking from your house without crossing the road?

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I have to turn right, walk all round the square, up the main road and then about ½ mile later I'm down a cul-de-sac that has no loop out!

Can go left as after 5m it's the road...

I attach a diagram... because I MN properly

Not very far as most of the cul de sacs on this estate don't have pavements. They have brick paved roads with just narrow brick verges. But even they often stop for drive ways. We are on the end of the road so can go round the corner to the next cul de sac - a few years I guess. If I could nip through a garden on the end of that road I'm on playing fields, which then lead on to a conduit path. From there miles - it leads into the peaks.

Miles and miles and miles and miles - I live in the middle of nowhere!

I'm another 'round the block' one but in a cul de sac. My block walk takes about 15mins, I walk it very occasionally if I haven't left the house for an age and feel I ought to.

Yes, so anytime you would have to cross a road, you have to follow a path. Like in the diagram.

My cul-de-sac has no linking path :( just two running down each side.

Probably about 2k, but about half of that has no pavement.

I am also on an island, but it includes Waitrose so I could have a nice turn around the car park on my wander. I think it would take maybe 20 minutes? I could go to the nice coffee shop and the pet shop on my way 😁

At the front - nowhere at all. We open straight onto the road.

At the back - about a mile across the fields until you hit a road.

If I just want to walk around the block then I could keep doing that forever, if I actually want to go anywhere else then about 3foot 🤣

500 meters.

Miles. Although, do you count crossing a side road at a t junction? In which case, about 3 miles right, or 6 left.

you'd almost be able to go to town here 2 milesgarden city let me see and report back thanks for the excitement 😋

About 2k round the block, if I was allowed to cross one road I could get on the canal and walk all the way to Belgium!

I live in the middle of a loop. I have to cross the road to get off it. Of course, if I wasn't allowed to cross the road, I'd just end up travelling around the same loop of houses forever.

About 27 houses length in a circuit starting and ending at my house

If I were to stick to pavements then I wouldn't get very far. If I could go along alleyways then I can get to the entrance to the river and walk along the river bank until I came out in town and then I think I could get back home without crossing any roads. 3 miles maybe

There is a car park directly in front, so nowhere if you count that.

If you don't count that, you can do a nice loop around through woodland and go quite far within the woodland, around our whole estate, to the next village, or under the motorway (it's an underpass so probably doesn't count as crossing) and into a different village.

Several thousand miles - don't have to cross any roads to get to the train station. That obvs then open up the entire GB and mainland Europe rail networks!

Do I win?

From the front of our property on pavements - nowhere as it's a country lane with only a pavement on the other side of the road.
However our back garden has a gate out onto the farmers fields with footpaths and you can walk for miles.

About 12 miles.

Similar here but I think the block would take a good five minutes to walk.

That sounds like a mid life crisis challenge that is turned into a book. Somwhere on the walk you will have to 'bump' into Julia Bradbury. 'I just kept walking until I came to the sea'. You could call the book 'Travelling without roads'.

Unfortunately like a pp we open right onto the road (lane) with no pavement.

If I turn right out of my front door, about 8 miles.

If I turn left out of my front door, about 50 yards.

Could just go round the block, but the block includes a co-op, coffee shop, hairdressers, Chinese and a duck pond, so if the roads turned to lava I'd be ok for a while!

Does needing to walk in a road count and crossing it?

count as crossing it?*