Memory lanes: the ramblers trying to save 10,000 lost footpaths

Memory lanes: the ramblers trying to save 10,000 lost footpaths

Posted by on Dec 5, 2018 @ 9:07 am in Hiking News | 0 comments | Last modified: December 5, 2018

England and Wales have about 140,000 miles of footpaths, but there are an estimated 10,000 more that have been lost from current maps. Even that figure looks like a huge underestimate: a recent survey in Cornwall alone identified 3,000 possible paths that had fallen out of use and needed to be checked. That work of rediscovery is being done by volunteers, people such as...

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