FE Lake District Lovers
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Aug 2021
8:36pm, 27 Aug 2021
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Homer
I tried to find that path once, even got the GPS out. The path isn't there. Just a good old green line on the map. I find this site handy wtp2.appspot.com |
Aug 2021
9:17pm, 27 Aug 2021
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Northern Exile
You know, it's been my observation over the years that quite often what appear to be legitimate pathways (or at any rate bridleways) with the ubiquitous green dashed lines turn out to be anything but, in fact sometimes common sense dictates that they have to denote parish boundaries or suchlike. Please don't all leap to the keyboard and tell me I'm wrong, I do appreciate that the usual symbol for a (parish) boundary is not green  Can someone who knows more about this than me help out please? Those sweeping green dashes on the map do not always follow the lie of the land and are sometimes far too straight, I really don't know what they are meant to represent. I remember thinking that one such line represented a fast descent off Ullock Pike and it turned out to be truly nasty and very steep line down a boundary fence, not a path. |
Aug 2021
9:32pm, 27 Aug 2021
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stuart little
NE, can't help with your specific question, but can confirm the similarities between parish boundaries and path markings apart from the colour. My colour blindness has often led to me to try and find a path on a parish boundary!
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Aug 2021
9:33pm, 27 Aug 2021
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flyingfinn
I've always suspected that they represent rights of way that the reluctant landowners granted in the days prior to widespread access that they designed with the intention that no one would actually want to use them. So win-win. There is a right of way across my land (so box ticked) but I know that none of the pesky commoners will actually want to use it. š
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Aug 2021
9:39pm, 27 Aug 2021
2,831 posts
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flyingfinn
However, if they do indeed follow Parish Boundaries it could be that the right for the public to use them came from being allowed to 'beat' the parish boundary which is an ages old custom in many parts of the UK.
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Aug 2021
9:39pm, 27 Aug 2021
22,201 posts
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Rosehip
- I find the open streetmap on here even wose for mixing footpath/right of way with parish boundaries. From the oposite angle, it also has footpaths marked that are either permissive, informally permissive or fsrm tracks with no right of way but everyone uses anyway marked. If Iām going to be walking in the LD on my own, I tend to use sattelite view online first to see if there is an obvious path roughly where the green lines go. |
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Aug 2021
9:40pm, 27 Aug 2021
22,202 posts
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Rosehip
^^that would make a lot of sense, FF
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Aug 2021
9:45pm, 27 Aug 2021
16,995 posts
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Autumnleaves
We used to have an annual beating the bounds where I grew up in Worcestershire.
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Aug 2021
9:49pm, 27 Aug 2021
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Blister
I'm going to Ambleside on Monday for 5 nights, can anyone recommend any good running routes? Around 8 miles or less. Thanks!
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Aug 2021
9:50pm, 27 Aug 2021
7,324 posts
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Blister
P.S. I've never been to the Lake District before!
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