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quick point of clarification.... the signpost at the bottom of here....
is this....
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At the top however, it's still a FP sign.
Now this bit.....
unclassified as yet?
sorry - pic just popped up...
Its a permisive bridleway but stops following path at the junction and starts following the black dashes, takes you back down to the Res again. Current Severn Trent site manager insists there is no permisive bridleway out onto hope brinks. A former one says it was put in as a permisive bridleway onto hope brinks. Out of the wood though its someone elses land and dont think they have ever had it down as permisive but the whole thing does follow the line of an unclassified county road and so could go through the whole legal stuff to claim as bridleway. It is still only footpath at the moment
In short you dont have a legal right to leave the woods.
as i thought.
I have heard it said that the route up to Hope Brink is actually a continuation of the bridleway from other side of the reservoir (if you look below both the A57 and the forest road you can see the remains of a track) and by that logic it's all one bridleway.
Don't know how much truth there is in that.