I wouldn’t worry. In 2026 the maps will be capped so nothing will happen after that. You have no hope ! 🙄

Any links to show where these routes would/ should be? Quite interested in the historic access Weardale, as there seems to be a dearth of bridleways.

On a related note do you know if there has ever been an attempt to reclassify the meeting of the grains footpath as it’s a bridleway on the forest side of the parish boundary, and looks like it used to be a bridleway on historic maps?

Sometimes getting public access has more than one side to it. It is not always ALL GOOD.

My local parish council have been trying for 9 years to force a right of way across various of my neighbours’ privately owned properties under various pretexts. It just so happens that the chair of the council owns land next to this property and needs a public right of way next to it in order to develope this land. Previous attempts to develope her land have floundered because(in part) of a lack of such access.

It might on one level be good if the properties involved were opened up for purely public access purposes….
BUT…..
talking as someone who has been threatened by these nausious corrupt bastards several times for pointing out the obvious connection between their public office and possible private gain….the project can GO TO HELL.

Sometimes it is not as simple as it seems!

I do :-), but I also know quite a few people who won’t either through a misplaced sense of right and wrong, or through having previously had run in’s with the aggressive land manager.

Do you know where the old BW went after the meeting of the grains? Was it east towards the Forest or north towards the weardale way(or both)?