They haven't sent me an email
but it doesn't surprise me, they were at least 20 years to late with doing this.
English Nature forecast it was about 10% of the national total of rights of way and even though they never made public the findings of the Lost Way Project, it must be obvious that the legal route of recovery is a lost cause, the route to recovery that should have overwhelming support, a political one lacks the interest of the very people it most affects. As illustrated;
Zero. There aren't any. Are you there, barewirewalker?
Thanks Pleb couldn't have put it better
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As we come up to remembrance day we forget yet again, one epitaph, the one that the the 1949 Countryside Act was supposed to bequeath to the nation for the sacrifice of our ancestors during 2 World Wars. This was the underlying political motives for the Act. The reward of the freedom our countryside for generations to come and the lottery the Ramblers are running on this is the measure the landowners of the country reneged on that promise.
Perhaps the timing is the only thing the Ramblers have got right.It is possible that history may measure the Corruption of the Definitive map as a greater social crime than the theft of bread, which caused the Corn Laws to be enacted. Hunger is an instant symptom of loss. Indifference to looking for that which is lost is the means by which criminals get away with crime.
Perhaps this is an instance of burying one's descendant's. I though that very reminiscent of the Liverpudlian sense of humour I enjoyed climbing with scousers.