FootpathsPotton 2023

Go to: Reporting Footpath Faults | Footpaths Casework | CCC's Definitive Map 

 

Ramblers across the country work to protect pathways and public rights of way by:

  • Ensuring they are recorded properly, adding new paths to the definitive map and the network;
  • Reporting problems like obstructions to highway authorities, and follow reports up to make sure these problems are resolved;
  • Saving paths from unsuitable diversions which will spoil a walk or make it unsafe;
  • Undertaking improvements to paths ourselves - our path work teams all over the country help maintain our paths on behalf of the highway authorities and landowners and for the walking public.

Hunts Ramblers has its own Footpaths Secretary on our Group’s Committee who works with the parties concerned to ensure that our members have free access to designated Rights of Way.

Definitive Map

Cambridgeshire County Council's Definitive Map shows all rights of way in the county.

⇒ Read about the Council's processes, or 

⇒ Go directly to the map.

Footpaths Casework

Take a look at the current and past issues affecting Rights of Way in our area: ⇒

Faults

If you discover a significant problem with a footpath, please report it. See how you can do this at: ⇒

Notice of Landowner Deposits

These notices may be seen from time to time posted in the wild during walks.

Landowners are within their rights to raise the deposited notice with Cambridgeshire County Council (or the lrelavant local aurity). It is not believed that there is any mechanism for the public to raise an objection to it.

They are designed to 'stop the clock' on the accrual of public rights of way under the 20-year rule i.e., from the date of the notice. A notice has no effect on existing public rights of way that may have already come into existence through long-term use (20 years plus), before the date of the notice. Nonetheless, for these to be considered, a member of the public would still need to submit an application for a Definitive Map Modification Order, so that the County Council can consider evidence of public use.

An example is at: ⇒