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Bridleway cannot be downgraded

Language: English Series: Daily Telegraph ; 24/7/89 p18Publication details: 1989Subject(s): Summary: Although a footpath had been mistakenly marked as a bridleway on a map prepared in the 1950s under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, the appeal in R v SoS for the Environment, ex parte Burrows and Another to have the highway redesignated as a footpath was dismissed since Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 s56(1)(b) provides that evidence from the map shall be conclusive.

Although a footpath had been mistakenly marked as a bridleway on a map prepared in the 1950s under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, the appeal in R v SoS for the Environment, ex parte Burrows and Another to have the highway redesignated as a footpath was dismissed since Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 s56(1)(b) provides that evidence from the map shall be conclusive.