There are many miles of so-called core paths in the council area. Core paths are numbered by section and are afforded some protection against their arbitrary closure. They may benefit from substantial efforts (by up to 300 or so ELCV volunteers) to maintain them and would be eligible for a variety of improvement grants.
If you include the other paths, many of which are shown in the map layers below, you’d think that access to the county was pretty good. In some respects it is, but it all depends on where you live as there are some areas of “path desert”. Elsewhere you may have to contend with other land uses and land users.
Many of these routes are reachable by train, so a series of interesting leaflets connecting stations might be nice to do.
With this new map we have:
- removed the annoying Google Business adverts
- simplified the look and feel
- linked to the latest Ordnance Survey squares published by ELC (though I like the old fashioned premium topography which is superb for detailed navigational clues)
- set the default mapping tools to OpenTopo, which is almost as nice as the former OS premium topography