Byway one end bridleway the other

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Farrar

Farrar

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Theres an open byway near st neots where one end is a byway and open seasonally and when you drive down it there's a locked gate.walk past it down a gravel drive and it's signposted bridleway yet on maps it is all a byway.have to turn round.how can this happen or is someone up to no good?
 
Is there a farm house on this track? They usually block the path as they don't want people driving past there house!! Very selfish and very naughty!
 
sible88 said:
Is there a farm house on this track? They usually block the path as they don't want people driving past there house!! Very selfish and very naughty!
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There is a farm house at gated end.they've made the last 100 yards of the byway there driveway.gravelled and private gate off main road.does anyone know this byway the open end runs from the abbotsley road from eynesbury supposedly to the a428.
 
their still driveable though if you got the right to be there it dont matter wot the sign sez
 
Very true but the one I am thinking of is 2 miles long with no turning point! Yeah - sure, fine to drive, if yu don't mind reversing 2 miles afterwards :(.
 
Coz they have changed it to a bridleway - no access for vehicular traffic.

It's a regular trick down here. Have a long byway and make all the access routes no access, but leave the boat open. Yu just can't get to it :(.
 
so the right of way isnt there?surely it stops somewhere before the end as you cannot have a bridleway 0m long?
 
Typically the lane is 3 miles long with no turning points. 2 miles from one end it changes to a bridleway, hence although it is legal to drive 2 miles of it, yu can't exit the other end, because vehicle access is stopped. The only option is to leave the vehicle and jump on a horse and/or reverse back the way yu came.
 
I mite be mistaken, but I think it is this at 51°09.107'N, 1°07.857'W. Travelling from NE is byway, but is no longer a byway SW from that point.
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
I mite be mistaken, but I think it is this at 51°09.107'N, 1°07.857'W. Travelling from NE is byway, but is no longer a byway SW from that point.
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Is that legal then to change a byway to a bridleway for 50 meters.the one I'm on about you can just about turn round at the end.glad I didn't have to reverse all the way back as it was nearly dark.someone should put a sign up and say it's a dead end.seems either the farmers or the councils are trying to make some lanes unusable or unattractive to use so no one goes down them and they get permanently shut or overgrown.
 
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