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Open Access Arrives This Weekend
By Jon on 15/09/2004 11:35:27
The first access land under the new Countryside and Rights of Way Act opens this Sunday primarily in NW England, but where can you go and what does it all mean?
. It'll mean that walkers will be able to explore open moorland awayfrom paths in areas which have been designated as open access land.But how do you know what's open and what isn't? In the Peak Park some400 new gates and styles have been installed
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Peak Access Suspended - Paths Still Open
By Jon on 02/05/2007 10:21:01
Extreme fire risk means open access is suspended, but paths and bridleways are still open.
Open Access in the Peak District has beentemporarily suspended to help prevent the risk of moorland fires,but people are still free to use public rights of way like footpathsand bridleways.The measures have been taken after the warmest April
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Tracklogs Mapping Now Includes Open Access Land
By Jon on 22/05/2006 12:07:48
Tracklogs digital 1:25,000 mapping now includes all of the areas designated Open Access under the right to roam legislation with the latest rollout completing the process.
The nice people at Tracklogs tell us that they've now added allthe remaining areas of Open Access land to their range of 1:25,000digital Explorer maps following the completion of the Open Accessprogramme.The production of new maps by the Ordnance
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Open Access Boundaries on 1:25,000 Maps Only
By Jon on 05/12/2000 16:05:00
The new Open Access boundaries will not be shown on the pink Landranger OS maps
The new Open Access land boundaries will only be shown on the1:25,000 scale Ordnance Survey maps and not on the 1,50,000 (pink)Landranger series, which will consequently be less useful to walkerssays the OS.The decision means that walkers
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Open Lakes - All The Access Points Listed
By Jon on 06/06/2001 15:49:00
Where to go if you want to walk in the Lakes from this Saturday
open are: Grasmere, Langdale, Loughrigg,Helvellyn, Fairfield, Stony Cove Pike, High Street, Red Screes,Fairfield, Ill Bell, Great Gable, Wasdale Fells, Coniston Fells, CatBells, High Spy, Causey Pike, Grisedale Pike and the ButtermereFells.Access Points
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Right To Roam Process Completed
By Jon on 01/11/2005 11:08:56
The opening up of access land in the final two English regions means that the new right to roam legislation is now fully implemented - but how do you know where you can and can't wander?
Yesterday - Halloween no less - was a historic day for accesscampaigners and outdoors people generally with access land in thefinal two regions being opened up. Signs like this mark
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In Brief
By Katie Spain on 13/05/2005 17:41:42
Small stories from our small story desk: Jazzing up Keswick, more open access land in Wales, a nature based John Muir Trust AGM, new Thales handheld GPS navigation systems and Helly Hansen clothing...
– 15th May. For more information on how to jazz it up next year visit: http://www.jenningsbrewery.co.ukMore Open Access Land in WalesIf jazz isn’t your thing, perhaps wandering the Welsh countryside is. If this is the case, then we’ve got news for you
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Yorkshire Dales Announce Guided Walk Program
By Dave Mycroft on 20/05/2009 10:58:45
Walks with a Ranger tohighlight open access
Before the introduction of the CRoW only 4% of the Yorkshire DalesNational Park had open access, but the legislation raised this to aremarkable 62% with a further 390 square miles made open to the public.To celebrate this, and highlight different
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Flat Areas To Get Early Right To Roam ...
By Jon on 29/11/2002 11:53:59
Open access areas are to be introduced with a rolling programme, plus the provisional access maps for the NW, including the Peak, have been released this month
should have full access, over and abovedesignated footpaths by summer 2004. Originally a one-off open accessday was planned for 2005, but it seems that the idea has beenreplaced with a rolling opening. See pressrelease.Meanwhile, as of yesterday
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Countryside Bill To Receive Royal Assent
By Jon on 28/11/2000 17:40:00
‘any person is entitled...to enter and remain on any access land for the purposes of open-air recreation...'
of access have been blasted open in an explosion of mixed metaphors The measures will allow walkers and climbers access to areaspreviously out of bounds, mainly mountains, moor, heath and downlandas well as common land. Areas over 600
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