Landies are ace!!!

Eh? Whats odd about gated lanes, several around here.

On or around Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:56:49 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice" enlightened us thusly:

increasingly replaced by cattlegrids with side gates though.

round here a gate across a lane generally seems to mean it is someones drive and you risk an angry farmer when you drive through/into his yard.

I have to say I can't think of many lanes that haven't got gates on them! An angry farmer is not the same as illegal - though of the four truly angry farmers I have come acress two just wanted to rant about trail riders going by at full tilt during milking (one in Cheshire, one near Llangollen) - which is fair enough, panicking cows are bloody leathal), one (Hartington Moor) had just had a wall demolished by some prats who thought it would be a good idea to use stones off the wall to try and get un-stuck and the fourth was a prat from Cheshire in need of life. On all other occasions we've just had a chat, made it clear that we were obeying "the rules" and that was that. One chap near Llangollen even came out an congratulated us on putting back all his obstructions after we'd passed!

Mind you, how many of the lanes I know are legal now is a different matter.......

Richard

How do you now know what is legal and what is not - it's a shambles.

Short of going to your county town and looking at the Definitive Map I've no idea. Ideally, all the various clubs could get their Green Lanes Officers (or whatever they call them) together and create a knowledge base - I can see good reason why it should not be published on the web etc, but clubs can (potentialy, anyway) extert some influence over their members. Also Glass and LARA could co-ordinate such a scheme, but I have no desire to be a member Glass (I saw their "encampment" at the Star Caravan Park a few years back - sorry if that's upset anyone) and from my time as a Green Lane Officer I found information was hard to come by.

Richard

How do you know any road from a 8 lane motorway down is "the public highway"?

The gated lanes I refered to are metaled, at the minimum two unfenced strips of tramac across a field, but are the public highway. I think perhaps we need to make the distinction between "lanes" as in single track roads common in the coutryside and "lanes" as in BOAT etc...