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A passport to roam?
by Bob Walker |
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TENSION is rising among landowners and farmers in the Peak District National Park as the Government's Countryside Agency reveals the areas where walkers will be able to roam free.
The Countryside and Rights of Way (CROW) Act which was passed last November gave walkers the right to roam over mountain, moor heath and down. Landowners will be able to close tracts of land for limited periods in order to protect wildlife, such as grouse.
However, open country will not include cultivated land, improved or semi-improved grassland. The Countryside Agency has drawn up maps which show exactly what areas of the country will become access land under the CROW Act.
The first two draft maps cover the South East and the Lower North West (which includes the Peak District). The Agency hopes to have the entire country mapped by 2005.
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No more barriers....walkers should soon have the right to roam freely over most of the mountains and moor land in the Peak District National Park |
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Derbyshire landowner Michael Shuttleworth is worried the right to roam will be extended over farmland |
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