Police Warn 4X4 Drivers! Tideswell Two 4X4s Driving Illegally Over an SSSI on the Edge of Sheffield Were Spotted and Photographed by a PHP Member
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Newsletter Issue 15 July 2018 In this issue: Jessica and Poppy ride for Alzheimer’s research Jacob’s Ladder When Jessica Green’s mum was diagnosed with consultation (p2) early onset Alzheimer’s Disease at only 55 years of age, Jessica wanted to do something about Rights of Way this devastating illness. research (p3) Her mum was a keen horse rider so Jessica decided that she would do a sponsored ride for her mum and make a donation to contribute to the work of Decision on Back Alzheimer’s Research UK. Lane (p4) Jessica and her horse, Poppy, rode the South Peak Loop in early May. Being local, she chose to do a part PHP round-up (p5) of the route each day with her ‘crew’ of supporters making she sure she and Poppy were driven to the start of each day’s section and met at the end to be taken home. Jessica said the ride was very enjoyable. She says: ‘I’m really glad I completed the ride and would definitely recommend the South Peak Loop to others. ‘ Jessica and Poppy with a young supporter Diary date: Jessica and Poppy have so far raised over £700. If you would like to support Jessica, and a very good cause, please go to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jessica-green14 September 16 Pleasure ride from Police warn 4x4 drivers! Tideswell Two 4x4s driving illegally over an SSSI on the edge of Sheffield were spotted and photographed by a PHP member. The drivers have been given formal warnings under the 2002 Police Reform Act. Sections 59- 60 of the Act allow the police to seize and remove a vehicle which is causing alarm, distress or annoyance to a member of the public when the vehicle is being driven on a footpath, BW, restricted byway, common land or moorland. The first step is a formal police warning. If a driver is caught a second time committing the same offence the power to seize and remove the vehicle comes into play. Well done South Yorkshire Police. It would be good to see the Derbyshire Constabulary equally willing to use these powers. Petition for new law on injury to horses in road accidents...... ....Says the law needs to be changed to protect riders from drivers who leave the scene of an accident leaving behind them huge vet fees, dead horses and horses that can never be ridden again. The petition is at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/217985 Two great rides to try.... One is a wonderfully scenic three-hour ride above Ladybower, round the Derwent Dams. It starts near the Fairholmes visitor centre, is easy riding and highly recommended. PHP committee members rode it as part of the BHS Ride Out UK month, which is all about raising awareness of off-road riding and and to publisise the work of BHS access volunteers. We also wanted to raise awareness of the British Mountaineering Council’s “Mend Our Mountains: make one million” project. Cut Gate bridleway, part of the Kinder Loop, is a challenging, high level ride from the top of the Derwent Valley to Langsett and is one of the projects in the BMCs campaign. Two PHP committee members took part in the video for BMC. You can find out more about the Cut Gate project and make a PHP committee riders where the Derwent Dams circuit meets the start donation at https://mendmountains.thebmc.co.uk/ of the Cut Gate route TRO consultation for Jacob’s Ladder - at last! DCC has finally consulted on a TRO to exclude off-road vehicles from Jacob’s Ladder, Stoney Middleton. Along with the Parish Council, Friends of the Peak District and the Peak District Green Lanes Alliance, PHP has been lobbying for a TRO on the route ever since it became a BOAT (Byway Open to All Traffic) in 2012. Consider needs of One of our first actions was to commission a safety survey of the route, which non-motorised users concluded that Jacob’s Ladder is dangerous for shared use between offroad Two officers from Highways vehicles and horses. The Parish Council has been asking for restrictions on England (HE), who operate, vehicle use for over 20 years. We congratulate DCC on finally grasping the maintain and improve England’s nettle. The next step is for DCC to consider the outcome of the consultation motorways and major A roads, and decide whether to press on with making the TRO. recently gave a presentation to Jacob’s Ladder is steep, narrow, has blind bends and there is nowhere to get out the BHS rights of way committee. of the way of motor vehicles. Its surface has been wrecked. Once part of a lovely, safe off-road route between Stoney Middleton and Eyam, this is what the lane They work in a relatively new looks like today: department, responsible for considering the needs of non- motorised users on whom HE developments have an impact. They were keen to learn about the needs of equestrians on multi user routes. They also announced their ‘connecting communities’ fund. This is a designated fund for spending between 2020 and 2025. Interestingly, it can be used retrospectively on HE schemes that didn’t consider non- motorised users when they were originally developed. It covers things considered ‘public good’ such as the impact on communities, eg community severance as well as ‘impact on place’. The fund will also take into account the impact on different types of users eg users of BWs and promoted trails, riding schools, stables and farriers. Rights of way research The 2026 deadline for claiming new BWs based on historic evidence is fast approaching. PHP member and rights of way researcher, Flick Edmeston, has been forging ahead with a number of claims. In this article she explains what she has been up to. Hmm... where to begin? I suppose it is at least twenty years ago that I first became interested in rights of way and did some preliminary fact finding but, although I never lost interest, it is only many years later that I have found that perfect blend of time and inclination which has enabled me to pursue this, well I would say hobby, but I’m afraid it’s become more of an obsession. I plunged headfirst into the murky waters of historical research nearly a year ago now and am proud to say that I have submitted four Definitive Map Modification Orders (DMMO’s to those of us in the know), in that time. Help and advice has been freely given by both Diana Mallinson Portion of an enclosure award map - best friend to a ROW researcher and Brian Smith and I must give credit to the DCC Legal Services Department, who have also been incredibly It is worth mentioning here the really friendly staff at the helpful when I didn’t expect it. Derbyshire Records Office who put up very patiently with my first, tentative efforts to trace railway records, turnpike My first DMMO to be accepted onto the register of trusts and historical ephemera which I thought may be claims was for an old bridleway leading from Alsop en le useful. Unfailingly polite and helpful, they made visits Dale up to what is now the A515, via the old station on occasions to be enjoyed when I felt very inexperienced the Tissington Trail. Although I was already interested in and could easily have been put off. this, I had most of the research handed to me on a plate A claim for the continuation of the bridleway known as and merely had to tidy it up, update it and then send it Gypsy Lane which runs from Alstonefield down Gypsy in. Great hopes for this one because it gives a useful link Bank and then turns into a footpath when it crosses the across from the High Peak to the Tissington Trail without River Dove and the Staffordshire/Derbyshire border has going along the A515, hazardous enough even in a car. also been accepted onto the register. The way down the The next order I submitted was for a lost and forgotten bank to the river can best be described as ‘challenging’, road from the A515 – yes, you’ve guessed it, these are all but I have not seen that as a reason not to put in a claim very local to me – across some farmland to the old main for the route – it makes a lovely link from one county road from Ashbourne to Buxton which is now merely to another and, if proven, it will definitely appeal to the known as Gag Lane. The (hopefully) conclusive evidence intrepid, or those with an intrepid horse. upon which I based this claim was a lost and forgotten I have added my two-penn’orth to the general confusion document from 1910 which I found at the bottom of a which is the question of the status of Gin Lane in box of Tissington Estates records held at the Derbyshire Ashover and must admit that I spent a month deciphering Records Office at Matlock. Some days turn out much a diversion document from 1784. Handwritten, faded better than others! legal documentation does pose some problems, but I got there in the end. I have had to buy a book on Elizabethan handwriting though in my efforts to transcribe a document from 1558 pertaining to Longway Bank at Ashover. After a couple of hours on this document, virtually all I had managed was “Philip and Mary”, “aforementioned”, “Watering Place”. “and” and “the” – not outstanding progress.