footpath width

[B R C]

To be fair I’ve got a cross field footpath on 80acre wheat field, I just wish the field was drilled....

 

[beefandsleep]

I reckon a reasonable percentage of those walkers will only have shoes or trainers on, so quick jump over electric fence or 6“ mud....

Put top strand as high as possible, big fencer. Trainers will just turn back when they see mud.

 

[thorpe]

if they had any sense they they would keep out of these fields under these conditions if they were at work they would refuse to work in it!

 

[curly]

I had a well used footpath going diagonally across a 25ac but when we put in 4m grass margins around the field under the Country Side Stewardship Scheme many years ago they started to use the margins instead & still do. They now often just go right round the field & don't carry on past this field. I'm not sure if they could now say that they can use the whole perimeter of the field for ever or not but at least they are not going across the middle.

 

[rollestonpark]

I had a well used footpath going diagonally across a 25ac but when we put in 4m grass margins around the field under the Country Side Stewardship Scheme many years ago they started to use the margins instead & still do. They now often just go right round the field & don't carry on past this field. I'm not sure if they could now say that they can use the whole perimeter of the field for ever or not but at least they are not going across the middle.

lol
on our ground, they do around the field through the field(where the path actually is) all over the place.
Anywhere they fancy.
Tackle them about sticking to the path or anything like that, you get verbally abused.

 

[nick...]

Got one here that runs through farm land with hedge on one side and ditch/field on other side.I cut it most of year but now just 6ft wide of mud.lots of walkers walk on margins and nearly impossible to stop them.most of the walkers do what they want anyway.at least the mud keeps the cyclists out.annoying but can’t do sod all about it
nick...

 

[rollestonpark]

Got one here that runs through farm land with hedge on one side and ditch/field on other side.I cut it most of year but now just 6ft wide of mud.lots of walkers walk on margins and nearly impossible to stop them.most of the walkers do what they want anyway.at least the mud keeps the cyclists out.annoying but can’t do sod all about it
nick...

and don't the walkers just know it!
Bet they would say something if I came walking in their garden

 

[nick...]

and don't the walkers just know it!
Bet they would say something if I came walking in their garden

Woukd be nice if they took the dogshit home as that is everywhere too.don’t know why people don’t put sweet wrappers back in their pockets either and worse thing I found this year is a used sanitary towel.luckily someone else took that home as I did not fancy picking it up.
nick...

 

[nick...]

and don't the walkers just know it!
Bet they would say something if I came walking in their garden

Woukd be nice if they took the dogshit home as that is everywhere too.don’t know why people don’t put sweet wrappers back in their pockets either and worse thing I found this year is a used sanitary towel.luckily someone else took that home as I did not fancy picking it up.
nick...

 

[snarling bee]

Understood,
I just feel footpaths are forever a burden on land owners/farmers, meaning that piece of land is effectively sacrificed to it, we couldn't have a solar park where we wanted it because the footpath was there. Development is a problem 'because you have a footpath there'. etc etc
Now we have them getting forever wider (making the sacrifice even greater)
ours are all diagonal across the field from 1 corner to the other, meaning it doesn't work great with GPS etc.

We managed to move a footpath for our solar park. It now goes round the fields on a track rather than across them. We had a short pointless one removed at the same time, but did grant another along a field boundary that made a circular walk possible. I was amazed that we succeeded in doing it to be honest.

 

[rollestonpark]

We managed to move a footpath for our solar park. It now goes round the fields on a track rather than across them. We had a short pointless one removed at the same time, but did grant another along a field boundary that made a circular walk possible. I was amazed that we succeeded in doing it to be honest.

wow, you pulled a blinder there. Maybe I should give that a try. Normally the ramblers get up in arms, and the answers no around here.
How did you manage to get that done...?

 

[Princess Pooper]

I imagine most of these footpaths crossing fields are a result of
hedges having been grubbed? Perhaps if the hedges had been left it wouldn't be a problem?

No they are not. We haven't grubbed any hedges out and have the 1840's tithe map to prove it. We have footpaths crossing fields the whole length of the farm. Footpaths were originally to get from A to B, in our case, from our little village to the market town 2 miles away. Loads of other farms in the same situation.

 

[Andy26]

No they are not. We haven't grubbed any hedges out and have the 1840's tithe map to prove it. We have footpaths crossing fields the whole length of the farm. Footpaths were originally to get from A to B, in our case, from our little village to the market town 2 miles away. Loads of other farms in the same situation.

Almost every village Church around here has a footpath to the neighbouring Parish and they're usually as the crow fly's not following field boundaries.

 

[Grassman]

Just string up a quick bit electric fencing! That'll keep em to the path!

Works for me most of the time. However yesterday I could see 2 oldish men who had climbed over the fence so they didn't have to walk through the walker made mud.
I waited at the end of the footpath with the tractor so they had an embarrassing walk towards me. I asked them politely not to do it as if everyone does it the field will be spoilt. They apologised

 

[Goggles]

Could you put a sign up at each end of the footpath offering walkers the option of walking around the edge of the field. Just temporarily while it’s wet.

 

[essexpete]

We managed to move a footpath for our solar park. It now goes round the fields on a track rather than across them. We had a short pointless one removed at the same time, but did grant another along a field boundary that made a circular walk possible. I was amazed that we succeeded in doing it to be honest.

Well I guess there was a net gain to the walkers. For once common sense prevailed!

 

[Grassman]

Well I guess there was a net gain to the walkers. For once common sense prevailed!

Thing is now hardly anyone uses the paths for their original purpose which was to get people to work, shop, pub and chuch etc.
So why not divert paths on a longer route around fields as its a leisure use nowadays. Win win for everyone.

 

[tullah]

Thing is now hardly anyone uses the paths for their original purpose which was to get people to work, shop, pub and chuch etc.
So why not divert paths on a longer route around fields as its a leisure use nowadays. Win win for everyone.

Because the ramblers see that as benefiting the farmers

 

[The Seeker]

You simply cant stop the great unwashed from going where the puck they like, i feel sorry for the farmer for looking so much land to trampling. our silage fields a area dog walkers dream, unleashed the hound and ponce around till the've dropped one then rovers back in the car... Gee thanks

 

[roscoe erf]

Fencing is the only option. You have to weigh up the cost / inconvenience compared to cropped land lost due to arsehole trampling.

That sounds like you’ve invented a new sport