Young Reporter | Poor State of Footpaths
Anyone who has opened up an ordnance survey map would have seen countless green dotted pathways, sometimes punctuated by diamonds cutting through fields, forests, and farms. These are public footpaths along which all people can walk and no landowner can prevent your travel along them, though it would appear they would really rather not have you there. During my DofE practice expedition this seemed to be the one constant of all the footpaths, the subtle feeling of the person whose land you were walking along not wanting you to be there. This subtle feeling sometimes became very evident when walking along certain paths there was a sign every 10 metres stating the public footpath did not include the grass and walking along it would be considered trespassing.
hello@uk4mag.co.uk 
Anyone who has opened up an ordnance survey map would have seen countless green dotted pathways, sometimes punctuated by diamonds cutting through fields, forests, and farms. These are public footpaths along which all people can walk and no landowner can prevent your travel along them, though it would appear they would really rather not have you there. During my DofE practice expedition this seemed to be the one constant of all the footpaths, the subtle feeling of the person whose land you were walking along not wanting you to be there. This subtle feeling sometimes became very evident when walking along certain paths there was a sign every 10 metres stating the public footpath did not include the grass and walking along it would be considered trespassing.
