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Part of the 'fun' is finding your way into these bits, for me anyway.
Around London and the SE it seems pretty easy to get to most squares using roads, bridleways snd perhsps the odd illicit footpath, I guess in rural areas it may be a bit harder.
If you're careful with route planning, using OS maps or OSM I think it isn't too hard. However people like @Sparky always seems to find themselves hacking through bushes and the like...
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Did my first ride specifically targeting a tile last week. Went for the single tile limiting my square to the west near Carterton, which it turns out is almost perfectly congruent with Brize Norton air base. I did a slightly sketchy commando raid down a private road to just nudge into the corner.
Many of my limiting tiles are pretty inaccessible, the tiles to the north will require relatively long cx bike rides followed by final footpath stretches, and today I’ll be going close to the southern tile near Abingdon but I think the only way to access that one would be a jaunt down the a34. There used to be a tt on that stretch (Chris Boardman set a comp record there in the 90s) but I don’t fancy riding there these days, even with quieter lockdown roads.
How do other people deal with awkward tiles and what are the greatest lengths you’ve gone to to capture them?