Idiot requires help: OS map

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God, it's just wiggly lines, as my OH tells me when I'm doing the directions!

I've managed (faint) to find oir local woods on an OS map. The main part is council run. Another section is Woodland Trust. Abutting that is another section, no idea, but lots of farmers' fields. One field separates one bit of wood from another. It has been fallow for the 8 years I've used it.

It was ploughed to the very edge this week and other dog walkers tell me the owner was fed up of people using it. There is a well used path directly between entrances to the woods either side (unclear if actual footpath) Around the outside, there is a green and white dotted line. Through one bit is a black dotted (separated) line. The wood itself is coloured pale orange (council run bit is grey).

I don't blame the farmer if he has decided to stop letting people using it: the stiles are always being broken, he had cows in there one year! Poor bloke.

Anyhow, the question is, what do the various coloured lines mean? And if he says he's fed up of people using it, I take it there's no Right of Way?
 
Look at the edge of the map... and if you can't find the key turn it over and look at the other side. Otherwise google os map, and the scale, and symbols.

Dotted lines mean edge of a track, solid lines mean fences. A right of way is another colour depending on the scale of the map you're looking at.
 
Thanks, it's 1:25000. The bit I'm on about is green is apparently 'Access land in woodland area'. What the heck that means, I don't know! The bit that surrounds it is orange and says 'Access land boundary and tint'. Therefore, there is allowed access across the field? Thing is, I don't want to pee off the landowner or be wrong and be chased by a tractor!
 
Access land means you can walk across it freely, although you have to keep dogs under control.

Can you scan the bit of the map in and post it on here, that would probably be easiest;)
 
Scan? What is this 'majik' of which you speak?!:p

The bit I'm interested in is Dell Wood, Hertfordshire. The exact bit has the number 75 in it. I've tried linking it but it defaults back to the home page. I'm such a numpty! I'm looking online, btw, not a paper copy.
 
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The link takes me to the find a map page, but not to the map you're looking at. Sorry:o

Can you do a screen grab?
 
Aha, I see it!

So, the bits outlined in orange are access land. This is kind of like common land - a lot of moors, heaths, areas like the Peaks in Derbyshire and the fells are access land. There are some restrictions, which are listed here:
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/enjoying/places/openaccess/default.aspx

The green dashed line running along the northern edge of the wood is a footpath.

Hope this helps!:)
 
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