Just wondering if anyone actually knows if this is legal to have barbed wire smack at the side of a footpath or in this case a Trans Pennine trail path that runs through my local wood?
I often use this path and see many cyclists using the path which is part of the TPT network which runs through the wood across road from where I live. Also horse riders and people walking there dogs and kids use the woods and the path.
Said area is a few fields that run at the side of the trail 300 -400 yards of barbed wire on the top of the fence and I presume they have used it as they keep horses in the field. The only thing is my dog as got caught up in the fence a few times and with it being smack at the side of the trail and the path only being about two meters wide if you fell off on the bike it would be nasty or on a horse. Not to mention with kids knocking about. Its on a slight downhill too and a bit rutted and slippy so it is defiantly a risk. I ripped my glove on it on the bike!
Just wondered if this was allowed in a place like that. Guess it just pissed me off when my dog as had a sore belly a few times!
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better than when they used to put electric fences in the way.
