Bridleways

Try www.bing.com/maps. If you type in your town/postcode and then click on oridinance survey on the rhs you should be able to check for the bridleway on there. It'll be shown as a green line like this - - - - (lines will be a little thicker and longer tho)
 
Get in contact with the definative map officer in the Rights of Way Department at your local County Council and they wil be able to tell you the exact status of the track. i.e if it is a Public Footpath, Public Bridleway, Byway etc. How long have you been riding this route? Do you know anyone else that has been riding it? If part of it is of Public Footpath status but it has been ridden for a number of years by different people then it would be possible to claim it as a bridleway. You would need to contact your local BHS bridleway officer who would be only to pleased to help you. If you want their contact details then E-mail me on peter.natt@btinternet.com
Peter Natt Volunteer BHS Bridleway Officer North Hertfordshire
 
Dead-end bridleways like this are not uncommon. If you want to get technical (I did warn you...), the bridleway was quite probably originally recorded on the definitive map as a 'road used as public path' (RUPP). As all RUPPs had to be reclassified, and the default status was bridleway, it became a bridleway. But formerly, it may not have been a bridleway at all: just a 'road' or track to the canal. So now it's a bridleway, but it doesn't lead anywhere. That's as good as it gets.

TG
 
I dont mind it being a dead end at the end is a gravel road/track up a steep hill we used to do a circular route(25 years ago) but due to abuse by motorbikes etc the gate at the top is now locked.
What I mind is the fact that the sign is too early on the track. I'll photograph it and ride to the end it may just be that I misread it.

If I bump into someone who complain I'll show them the map .
 
I see your point: it's an offence to display a notice intended to deter use of a public right of way. But as you've described the notice as official-looking, check first with the rights of way team at Glos CC to see if they put it there - and if so, why? The Glos on-line mapping shows the bridleway continues past Canal View and stops just short of the junction with the footpath down to Stonepitts Bridge.

TG
 
Flibble said:
I dont mind it being a dead end at the end is a gravel road/track up a steep hill we used to do a circular route(25 years ago) but due to abuse by motorbikes etc the gate at the top is now locked.
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Thats a shame, but even so, denying horseriders access is not on. We have dug out gateways with sleepers to step over where motorised vechiles are not allowed. can't think what the proper name for them is, but keeps the routes open to riders.
 
Thank you all. I went back today and the sign reads:

"No Through Public Bridleway" so it is my misinterpretation however it is less than a third of the way along the track which is confusing. So we cantered along the track (its not deep and muddy and at the end (I knew it was the end it is marked on the map) there was no signage at all so we turned left up the gravelled track we used to go up before and trotted up the hill. Its not marked for horses but is used by Tractors and Landrovers so I thought be sedate and no one can complain. The gate at the top was locked so we turned back down the track and retraced our steps.

So it would appear it is still open.
 
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