JFTDWS
Well-Known Member
I generally find the "I'm allowed to be so suck it up" approach just gets people's backs up...
All gates on bridleways should be minimum of 1.5 mtrs wide (yes i know lots aren't) the bridleway must be wide enough to allow horses to pass each other. Why cant you use them ?Also remember the carriage drivers, who can't even use the bridlepaths!
Here in Ireland we have no bridleways and I believe its the same in Scotland. There is no where else!
I’m lucky to live in a village with bridleways, however they are unfortunately mostly inaccessible to carriages - too narrow in places, or too steep or surface too boggy in places - despite being in the fortunate position that we have had a pot of money to spend on maintenance (but we still are dependent on obtaining match funding from county highways etc which is difficult to get) and having volunteers willing to help maintain them. Land owners aren’t going to agree to move the hedges back to widen them. One bridlepath goes across a marsh owned by Natural England who flatly refuse to allow any works to make it accessible to horses or reroute it.All gates on bridleways should be minimum of 1.5 mtrs wide (yes i know lots aren't) the bridleway must be wide enough to allow horses to pass each other. Why cant you use them ?
All gates on bridleways should be minimum of 1.5 mtrs wide (yes i know lots aren't) the bridleway must be wide enough to allow horses to pass each other. Why cant you use them ?
Carraiges pulled by horses are allowed on bridleways because they are NOT mechanically propelled , as bicycles are not machanically propelled and allowed. (Countryside rights of way act 2000, ss 53-56.)1. We're not allowed - carriages are 'vehicles' and aren't allowed on bridleways or footpaths.
2. Gates are too narrow usually, as are many of the paths themselves
3. Where the path is wide enough (e.g. the lovely old railway line between Leckford and Romsey) there are 'measures' to prevent vehicles, such as posts in the centre, horse styles etc.
Carraiges pulled by horses are allowed on bridleways because they are NOT mechanically propelled , as bicycles are not machanically propelled and allowed. (Countryside rights of way act 2000, ss 53-56.)
In Scotland the lucky blighters have open access to farmland, dont they?
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In Scotland the lucky blighters have open access to farmland, dont they? .
"Because they are too big to walk on the footpath like a dog, so we have to walk them on the road!"
I was wrong and thank you for pointing this out.This is incorrect, and in most cases physically impossible.
Cauda equina is correct. Carriages are allowed on restricted byways, BOATS (Byways Open to All Traffic) and on roads, but not on bridleways, footpaths or motorways.
Not sure about bus lanes
If it was brought in to Ireland I can envision my irate farming neighbours chasing them off their landIn Scotland the lucky blighters have open access to farmland, dont they?
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