Route planning & best methods

@dag019 your second link don’t work

dag019 said:

This is the article I was looking at: LINK

Looking on google and the Gloucestershire council rights of way map (LINK) I think these are unclassified country roads. Nothing listed on the rights of way for map anything and some of them you can street view.

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They're all UCRs according to Trailwise - some of them might be overgrown and scratchy according to recentish comments.

Hicap phill said:

@dag019 your second link don’t work

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LINK try this one, is just a link to Gloucestershire rights of way online map which does not seem to show them as anything hence assuming they were UCR which fits with @jamesDiscoTD5 's comments

Some of them you can streetview the length of and that seems to fit with what I would expect from a UCR. I may take a trip out later this week to have a look.

For planning I use TW2, but check, some marked UCR are actually not according to the council maps. Councils will have a definitive map often online even if not particularly up to date, and a Highways map the highways map will list all the UCR on them, Devon and Somersets are very good even if surprising! I cannot comment on the rest.... The one final hack of the websites is to attempt to report an issue on a highway, this will not let you know if there is a road closure or restriction but will let you know if its a council maintained highway which is better than guessing! So far in lanes local to me that I have know driven since I can remember (well the 1990`s) One isn`t a UCR but the farmer doesn't mind, as it "keeps the brambles back" and is an entertaining 200 yards, One has never been on TW2 or OS maps as a UCR but is and always has been. and the third is well known locally as being a challenge is always littered with plastic from newer 4x4 about a mile long but is not any form of ROW just landowner access (Also is not marked as such on TW2 or OS maps). Be careful and check!