I have successfully got a new Bridleway!

[scruffyponies]

So the one a local lady has put a DMMO in on the BHS register thing is a bridleway that a farmer has blocked off with 2 pedestrian only gates. It's now showing as a footpath on ordnance survey maps but he's never formally had permission to change the use. So does that count as an unrecorded path?

If this has hisorically been used as a bridleway, I would say he has blocked it illegally. Speak to the council about removing the obstruction pending processing of the DMMO. You might also consider an injunction preventing him blocking it again.

 

[Fjord]

Well done!

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

Well done! WHY ohh why should it take sooh damn long?

Whereas if you'd asked for a cycle track costing ££millions you'd have probably got it in less than 2 years.

I'm in Devon and our County Hall ROW dept makes a snail look speedy. They are useless.

 

[eggs]

Congratulations and I am in awe of your tenacity.

 

[PeterNatt]

Scruffyponies! My advice would be to check as to what status the path is recorded as on the Definitive map of your County. (This is the County Councils map that records all public rights of way). If it is of bridleway status then ask the local Rights Of Way team to put an enforcement order on the landowner and get the gates replaced by gates that can be opened from horseback. If it is not recorded as a Bridleway then get user evidence forms completed by everyone that has ever used the route. Also try to determine when the gates were erected as this will also be useful. If you need any help then contact your local BHS access officer or myself on peter.natt@btinternet.com.

 

[PeterNatt]

Skib! Why is your current share not permitted to cross over?

 

[PeterNatt]

Flame! You are always welcome to come down and park up or camp here and use our network of bridleways. Best wishes Peter E: peter.natt@btinternet.com (We also organise an endurance ride each year in August/September which uses the local bridleway/byway network).

 

[PeterNatt]

Cauda Equna! The one thing that the 2026 date has done is focussed our attention on getting as many applications for DMMO through so that they are in the system.

 

[PeterNatt]

Many thanks again for all your kind responses and I will continue my efforts to obtain more Bridleways for horse riders. It is a hard slog but we get there in the end! Picture of bridleway.

 

[scruffyponies]

Scruffyponies! My advice would be to check as to what status the path is recorded as on the Definitive map of your County. (This is the County Councils map that records all public rights of way). If it is of bridleway status then ask the local Rights Of Way team to put an enforcement order on the landowner and get the gates replaced by gates that can be opened from horseback. If it is not recorded as a Bridleway then get user evidence forms completed by everyone that has ever used the route. Also try to determine when the gates were erected as this will also be useful. If you need any help then contact your local BHS access officer or myself on peter.natt@btinternet.com.

Fortunately we don't have gates on ours, just a huffy sign put up by the county council in response to a single complaint from the rather single minded (read fascist) local walkers group. We just ride around the sign but only because we're too polite to go down there at night and pull it up. It was only the signage which alerted us to it not being a bridleway on the definitive map. We had been happily using it for literally generations, and have even dug out a letter from the Town Clerk to a local famer dated c. 1980 which refers to it as such, with a map for reference

 

[PeterNatt]

Scruffyponies You need to get User Evidence Forms completed by everyone that has used it and then make an application for a Definitive Map Modification Order (DMMO) for it to be recorded as a Public Bridleway as otherwise you stand to loose it forever.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I am impressed by your perseverance and disappointed but not entirely surprised at the length of time it took.

 

[scruffyponies]

Scruffyponies You need to get User Evidence Forms completed by everyone that has used it and then make an application for a Definitive Map Modification Order (DMMO) for it to be recorded as a Public Bridleway as otherwise you stand to loose it forever.

Done already.

 

[Leandy]

Well done!

 

[Orangehorse]

Oh well done Peter. What a marathon.

 

[Dave's Mam]

Well done & what perserverance.

 

[Reacher]

As others have said , what remarkable perseverance, I take my hat off to you @PeterNatt . Thanks in behalf of every who will use the RoW.

As far as the council goes, words fail me!

 

[WispyBegs]

Huge well done Peter! Future generations of horse riders will now get to enjoy this for years to come ? Brilliant achievement!

 

[PeterNatt]

Many thanks for your kind comments, which are much appreciated.

 

[Haniki]

Great work Peter!
I can not believe it took the council so long to process.

 

[LadyGascoyne]

Fantastic work Peter, hopefully this bridleway will now remain open for generations of riders to enjoy.