Dear All,Going up to Scotland for Hogmany, staying in Maillaig on West Coast.Two Questions, first is complex second is easier both are best answered byan inhabitant. ( of that big vast empty bit of the country!)I have been googling and seem to have turned up the following can anybodyconfirm or deny for me to set my mind to rest.Due to right to roam, no rights of access are marked on Scottish OS maps, Ican tell this by looking at the ones I have.As a walker you can walk anywhere unless it is construed by the land ownerthat you intend to damage land buildings or livestock/game. Under whichcircumstance you may be prosecuted for trespass (Or rather shot at, withSalt!)As a Greenlaner any track connecting two public places i.e. two classifiedroads is a classed as a byway and may be driven as such bearing in mindsensitivities such as driving through peoples gardens/farmyards/etc etc.Can anybody deny or confirm if this is the case?Secondly can *anybody* reccomend any tracks near the mallaig area, willingto travel out/down to Fort William for day trips or equivelent distances.Severity not really any issue as there will be a 110 and Rangie present atall times.TIA,MarkE450 TFL OneTen Ex Military Hard Top (Cr*p Heater)Y437 JFO 110 TD5 Double Cab (Fantastic Heater)PS. I know I may be posting OT slight for the NG so if thats the case pleaseadvise of a more suitable place to post.PPS. I could ask for an obscure engine part of it helps.

Dunno about Mallaig, but if you are willing to go down as far as Glen Coethen there are large stretches of the old A82 which are reachable from thecurrent road and are a nice drive.Be warned - the one thing they did do was dynamite all the bridges on theold road.P.

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Bob Webster 22 years ago

Interest point on this, Highland council have placed "Traffic Restrictions" on this road a couple of times in the past years (I have copies of the notices!) and these are only valid for public highways.............

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Andrew Kay 22 years ago

Indeed.

In an EMail from the Highland Council to me in June 2002, Alex Sutherland confirmed that: "The temporary closure order has expired and no longer applies" with regard to the most recent closure order made in 1997 (minutes of the Highland Council are still on their website).

Cheers Andrew Kay

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