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Originally Posted by Rudolph Hooker
A path doesn't imply a right of way, and a right of way doesn't imply a path.

It was ever thus.

On the fells that's accepted, but through farmer's fields it's a complete farce when the Right of Way on the map doesn't match up to the stiles and footpath signs. (There's rarely a path on the ground, or black dotted lines on the map).
Around here even the signed footpaths are regularly ploughed up where they go across fields or around the edges. I think the farmer has 2 weeks to re-instate them, but it rarely happens and so the route gets altered.