Your local County Council has a legal obligation to produce a document called 'The Definative Map', you are permitted to view this map free of charge.

Some, more progressive councils put this on-line (Cumbria & Northumbria for instance) while others (Yorkshire) try to keep it locked away in the hope you'll give up.

The Definative Map must show all legal rights of way (footpaths, Bridelways, restricted bridelways and Byways Open to All Traffic - BOATS). So if it is on the Defiative map as a BOAT, you can ride it.

This is just the start of a long and somewhat strained subject on what you can and can't do, also what the Police can and can't do, what they try to do, why some TRO's aren't actually legal, the fact that to have a TRO it has to be a highway in the first place yada yada yada....

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