Fynn - Lark Ews May 2019
Fynn - Lark ews May 2019 HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS May is traditionally a month to enjoy the great outdoors in mild and fragrant weather. Whether that means looking for a romantic maypole to dance around, trying to stay ahead of the rapid garden growth or merely enjoying the longer days and busy birdsong, it is for some a month to get outside and appreciate the English countryside we have access to, right on our doorsteps. This year sees the 70th anniversary of the creation of our National Parks – not that we have one in easy reach in Suffolk – but the same legislation required all English Parish Councils to survey all their footpaths, bridleways and byways, as the start of the legal process to record where the public had a right of way over the countryside. Magazine for the Parishes of Great & Little Bealings, Playford and Culpho 1 2 On the Little Bealings Parish Council surveyor is the rather confusing: "A website are the survey sheets showing common law right to plough exists if the the Council carrying out this duty in 1951. landowner can show, or you know, that From the descriptions of where they he has ploughed this particular stretch of walked, many of the routes are easily path for living memory. Just because a identifiable, as the routes in use are path is ploughed out does not necessarily signed ‘Public Footpath’ today. The indicate a common law right to plough; Council was required to state the reason the ploughing may be unlawful. why it thought each route it surveyed was Alternatively, there may be a right to for the public to use.
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