Dear Helen - and copied to the OS over my suggestion, below for only having mapped paths which are visible on the ground and can actually be walked.
I had three wonderful expeditions of three or four days each on the Glyndwr last month. It is such a joy to be able to walk on clear/unblocked and well waymarked paths and tracks. I had to return on the same route back because the other PROWs cannot be relied on to be clear of vegetation, forestry or impossible to open gates and, of course, all the impossible to find/non-existent routes when they are still being marked on Ordnance Survey maps.
Please could you discuss with your colleagues this. My suggestion that the OS should have a change of policy away from marking Public Rights of Ways on their maps when they do not exist on the ground. They would, of course, remain on the Definitive Map for safe, legal protection. Having OS Explorer maps with paths/tracks marked on them, which you can be sure still exist on the ground, would be revolutionary but fantastic. Their sentences of excuses for bearing no responsibility for the possibility of map paths not actually existing on the ground could then be banished into history. No more regretful hand washing in public!
I had the obligatory tarmac bashing in the vicinity of Llyn Clywedog with the closed Glyndwr path. However, I returned the next day and took the path from the trout fishing centre to the sailing club. That section does need better waymarking - please - and the new footbridge, further south, installed. When is it likely to be done? For how long, so far, has the path been closed? It really is needed on such an important Welsh national trail.
Thanks, too, for the yellow capped posts sometimes seen which make them easier to pick out. And all the arrows, discs and signposts, too. They all add to the enjoyment of the walk, along with the great scenery.
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