New housing estate

<robotiser@> wrote in message
news:1156846579.740653.218250@74g2000cwt. ...
> Yesterday I was trying to follow a path on a map to a historic (I
> think) well in farmland. I lost the path completely as it took me into
> a partially completed "new build housing estate".
>
> I'm curious about finding out whether, assuming the path has been built
> over, whether the path is one that I have a right to go down. I was
> following a dotted line on an A-Z. How can I find out whether there is
> a right of way along that path? I'm in Leicester, UK.

Do you have the OS grid ref of the bit of the path that you are
interested in (or the well)? You can usually tell whether the path
is a RoW or whether it is concessionary from a large scale OS map.
Plug the grid ref into OS Get-a-map and then compare the type of
marking with the key, or tell us and we'll have a look.

Alternatively contact the local council or try rights-of-way.

The message <olBuvKBFa++EFw9S@graigroad.>
from "W. D. Grey" <Bill@graigroad.> contains these words:

> In article <313030303435303944F443A194@zetnet.co.uk>, Richard Spencer
> <richard.spencer@zetnet.co.uk> writes
> >When you speak land law, no you bloody are not! You are in Leicester,
> >England & Wales.

> Leicester is in England which is part of the United Kingdom - and that's
> without resorting to bad language.

> Thanks for remembering Wales though :-)

Quite right, but irrelevant! England & Wales on the one hand, and
Scotland on the other have drastically different land law (and to a
great extent, still, criminal law)

Richard
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