Bridle,
You have my most sincere apologies if my replies in anyway seemed hostile to you personally or that I have in anyway suggested that you should not post on this forum. Had you, as an infrequent poster here, read some of my posts you may have realised that I am one of those likely to sympathise with the motives that have bought you to this forum.
To tell a forum of walkers that they should not go to a county because the landowners are hostile carp is a negative way of approaching the problem, many of us here have come across this problem both up close and personal and in the evidence of where we are not wanted in our countryside. You have had good suggestions from other members of this forum and my own suggestion that you look into your own counties Local Access Forum was one I had hoped would have bought back positive news in any subsequent post from you on this subject.
I thought that asking about an equestrian connection as the term 'bridle' is part of the gubbins used to harness a horse worthwhile, as the British Horse Society is running a campaign (probably more effective than the Ramblers) into lostways.
I have done some walking in Camarthenshire, it is a great county to walk in. The positive approach to vent your frustrations would be to find a forum used by people interested in the hospitality trade and tell them why it is inadvisable for people to go to that county with the intention of staying and expecting to walk with the wholehearted approval of the indigenous population, then come to this forum and provide us with the links so that we can add very relevant comment.
If you look
here; you will find a map, it is the area in Herefordshire, where the President of the Country Landowners Association, who wrote or was editor in chief of that organisation's policy on access to our countryside. This organisation sends a monthly publication to all members it recruits, from dwellers in the countryside, be they farmers, smallholders, my pony in my backyard or hereditary landowners with vast estates. Why? Because the hereditary landowners lost the ability to control their political will with a veto by numbers in the House of Lords after having hereditary lords thinned out in that chamber.
Now ask yourself why you are meeting landowners with 'attitude', where is it coming from and are you the only person in the only county, who is experiencing this?
You have my every sympathy with the problems you have met, but emotion will not win the argument. I believe the answer is economic, which I hope to show maybe
in the topic provided in the previous link. That is if I can continue to gather the examples and make sense of them.