I have spent a couple of days 'snipping and cutting' on this important bridleway that, further west, has a trial of four different horse gates on it. It was blocked for horses and their riders in three places. The trial started in 2023. In Bickenham Wood, there remains across the bridleway, which is actually more of a footpath, two fallen branches at knee height which I could not move. Horses and walkers should be able to step over them. At the Rectory Cottage, eastern end there is a branch that a horse rider may not be able to get under.
I believe in walkers like me, who have had a lifetime of glorious hill walking in the UK, should give something back by helping to keep our PROW network open and available for future users, as well as protecting and conserving this important part of our nation's transport infrastructure.
Please ask the landowner to finish clearing the timbers off the bridleway, and encourage the British Horse Society and walkers' groups to use it. THANKS!
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