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  1. The Squeeze: Roseberry Topping’s Disappearing Footpath

    Climbing Roseberry Topping ought to be one of the simple joys in life. Not on this stretch. Here it is a “stinging” ordeal, and no mistake.
    A modern post-and-wire fence runs alongside a maturing line of hedge saplings, squeezed in next to the old boundary. They were planted a few years b ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/07/18/the-squ

    #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #AccessRights

  2. The Squeeze: Roseberry Topping’s Disappearing Footpath

    Climbing Roseberry Topping ought to be one of the simple joys in life. Not on this stretch. Here it is a “stinging” ordeal, and no mistake.
    A modern post-and-wire fence runs alongside a maturing line of hedge saplings, squeezed in next to the old boundary. They were planted a few years b ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/07/18/the-squ

    #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #AccessRights

  3. Phase 2 of Roseberry’s Facelift Begins

    Last week, the powers that be helicoptered huge black bags of stone and gravel onto the south flank of Roseberry Topping, ready for this year’s phase of its major path upgrading. I have been anxious to see the progress.

    To the left of the leftmost foxglove, the bridleway, after climbing up from the Folly field, cont ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/06/15/phase-2

    #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #AccessRights

  4. Phase 2 of Roseberry’s Facelift Begins

    Last week, the powers that be helicoptered huge black bags of stone and gravel onto the south flank of Roseberry Topping, ready for this year’s phase of its major path upgrading. I have been anxious to see the progress.

    To the left of the leftmost foxglove, the bridleway, after climbing up from the Folly field, cont ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/06/15/phase-2

    #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #AccessRights

  5. 🚨 Breaking News 🚨: 340 local news outlets bravely decide that hoarding their journalistic gems behind virtual velvet ropes is the best defense against the Internet Archive. 🏰 Because, clearly, the way to serve the public interest is to make sure nobody can access your content. 🤡
    niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-tha #BreakingNews #LocalNews #InternetArchive #Journalism #AccessRights #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 🚨 Breaking News 🚨: 340 local news outlets bravely decide that hoarding their journalistic gems behind virtual velvet ropes is the best defense against the Internet Archive. 🏰 Because, clearly, the way to serve the public interest is to make sure nobody can access your content. 🤡
    niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-tha #BreakingNews #LocalNews #InternetArchive #Journalism #AccessRights #HackerNews #ngated

  7. Coast to Coast Opens — But Not For All

    The Coast to Coast is now an official National Trail. Years of effort, a considerable sum of public money, and another grand ceremony. But one writer greets the opening carrying not a celebratory banner but a rather pointed question: Who, exactly, is it for?
    Charlotte Ditchburn is happy to acknowledge that these ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/04/10/coast-t

    #CarrRidge #CoastToCoast #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  8. Coast to Coast Opens — But Not For All

    The Coast to Coast is now an official National Trail. Years of effort, a considerable sum of public money, and another grand ceremony. But one writer greets the opening carrying not a celebratory banner but a rather pointed question: Who, exactly, is it for?
    Charlotte Ditchburn is happy to acknowledge that these ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/04/10/coast-t

    #CarrRidge #CoastToCoast #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  9. A Pithy Guide to the King Charles III Coast Path

    At Marske Sands, a wooden fingerpost points towards Redcar and its turning turbines, as if pointing out the obvious. The King Charles III Coast Path belongs to a 2,700 mile plan to walk round the island, or near enough. It is the sort of stroll that rewards enthusiasm with blisters. You walk north ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/16/a-pithy

    #MarskebytheSea #Redcar #AccessLand #AccessRights

  10. A Pithy Guide to the King Charles III Coast Path

    At Marske Sands, a wooden fingerpost points towards Redcar and its turning turbines, as if pointing out the obvious. The King Charles III Coast Path belongs to a 2,700 mile plan to walk round the island, or near enough. It is the sort of stroll that rewards enthusiasm with blisters. You walk north ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/16/a-pithy

    #MarskebytheSea #Redcar #AccessLand #AccessRights

  11. Access Without Respect

    A pack of a dozen mountain bikers bursts down the newly rebuilt, stone-stepped path on Roseberry Topping. Several are motor-assisted. Gravity does the rest. Gravel skitters, walkers flinch, gates are left yawning behind them. For a few loud seconds the hill is theirs, claimed by speed and noise. It looks impressive, in the way a juggern ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/08/access-

    #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #AccessRights #NationalTrust

  12. Access Without Respect

    A pack of a dozen mountain bikers bursts down the newly rebuilt, stone-stepped path on Roseberry Topping. Several are motor-assisted. Gravity does the rest. Gravel skitters, walkers flinch, gates are left yawning behind them. For a few loud seconds the hill is theirs, claimed by speed and noise. It looks impressive, in the way a juggern ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/08/access-

    #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #AccessRights #NationalTrust

  13. The Conservation Walk That Has Vanished

    It seems fitting to be posting this at the end of January 2026, a month that quietly marked a profound centenary. One hundred years ago, Section 193 of the Law of Property Act 1925 gave the public a legal right to access around a third of the common land in England and Wales. For the first time, the law recognised a simple ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/01/31/the-con

    #GreatAyton #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  14. The Conservation Walk That Has Vanished

    It seems fitting to be posting this at the end of January 2026, a month that quietly marked a profound centenary. One hundred years ago, Section 193 of the Law of Property Act 1925 gave the public a legal right to access around a third of the common land in England and Wales. For the first time, the law recognised a simple ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/01/31/the-con

    #GreatAyton #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  15. A Path Marked Clearly, Only it Points Left

    About twenty minutes today went on scrubbing the graffiti off the rock faces, as I posted yesterday. Fortunately, it was water-based. They are not perfect, their shadow still lingers if you squint. Still, it is a sight better than the mess that was there before. Progress, slow and steady, like pushing treacle uphill.
    ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/01/13/a-path-

    #Aireyholme #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  16. A Path Marked Clearly, Only it Points Left

    About twenty minutes today went on scrubbing the graffiti off the rock faces, as I posted yesterday. Fortunately, it was water-based. They are not perfect, their shadow still lingers if you squint. Still, it is a sight better than the mess that was there before. Progress, slow and steady, like pushing treacle uphill.
    ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/01/13/a-path-

    #Aireyholme #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  17. A Quarter Century of the Right to Roam, More or Less

    Today brings a double milestone for those in England and Wales who find the open air rather more enticing than the sofa. It is twenty-five years since the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 marched through Parliament and twenty years since its promised free ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/30/a-quart

    #Aireyholme #LittleRoseberry #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #AccessRights #history

  18. A Quarter Century of the Right to Roam, More or Less

    Today brings a double milestone for those in England and Wales who find the open air rather more enticing than the sofa. It is twenty-five years since the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 marched through Parliament and twenty years since its promised free ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/11/30/a-quart

    #Aireyholme #LittleRoseberry #NorthYorkMoors #20thCentury #AccessRights #history

  19. Freedom to Roam: Lessons from Sweden

    Back home on my own patch, though I still feel justified in milking our recent sojourn in Sweden for another post.
    In 1706 Kräkmyren was dammed to divert its water to the Falun Mine. Sweden was then at war with Russia, and Russian prisoners of war are said to have built the earthbank. Over the centuries it filled with silt, and what began a ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/09/27/freedom

    #Sweden #AccessRights #history

  20. Freedom to Roam: Lessons from Sweden

    Back home on my own patch, though I still feel justified in milking our recent sojourn in Sweden for another post.
    In 1706 Kräkmyren was dammed to divert its water to the Falun Mine. Sweden was then at war with Russia, and Russian prisoners of war are said to have built the earthbank. Over the centuries it filled with silt, and what began a ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/09/27/freedom

    #Sweden #AccessRights #history

  21. The Pike Stone: From Waste to Common Land

    The Pike Stone marks the boundary between the common land of Westerdale and the “wasteland” of Baysdale Moor. At first glance there is little difference: both are heather moor, both are Open Access. Yet the distinction matters, and the Open Spaces Society is seeking to have Baysdale Moor r ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/09/06/the-pik

    #Baysdale #InglebyMoor #NorthYorkMoors #Westerdale #AccessRights #history

  22. The Pike Stone: From Waste to Common Land

    The Pike Stone marks the boundary between the common land of Westerdale and the “wasteland” of Baysdale Moor. At first glance there is little difference: both are heather moor, both are Open Access. Yet the distinction matters, and the Open Spaces Society is seeking to have Baysdale Moor r ...

    fhithich.uk/2025/09/06/the-pik

    #Baysdale #InglebyMoor #NorthYorkMoors #Westerdale #AccessRights #history

  23. Following the Green Dots: An Unclassified Road to Nowhere

    Now that the summer’s undergrowth is finally abating, I thought it an opportune moment to exercise a rarely-trod right of way past Ayton Banks Farm. One likes to ensure that these landowners are periodically reminded of the existence of such rights, lest they grow complacent.

    According to the 1:25,000 O.S. Map, the route is ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36488

    #AytonBanks #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  24. Following the Green Dots: An Unclassified Road to Nowhere

    Now that the summer’s undergrowth is finally abating, I thought it an opportune moment to exercise a rarely-trod right of way past Ayton Banks Farm. One likes to ensure that these landowners are periodically reminded of the existence of such rights, lest they grow complacent.

    According to the 1:25,000 O.S. Map, the route is ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36488

    #AytonBanks #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  25. The Forgotten Rebellion: Winter Hill’s Mass Trespass of 1896

    Another delightfully dreich day on the North York Moors. In the murk, we stumbled upon two workers labouring away on the new footpath up Roseberry. The path, prepared to its subsoil, resembles some sort of glutinous purgatory, offering a walking experience only slightly less pleasurable than a swim in wet cement. The workers mentioned the a ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36232

    #RoseberryTopping #19thcentury #AccessRights

  26. The Forgotten Rebellion: Winter Hill’s Mass Trespass of 1896

    Another delightfully dreich day on the North York Moors. In the murk, we stumbled upon two workers labouring away on the new footpath up Roseberry. The path, prepared to its subsoil, resembles some sort of glutinous purgatory, offering a walking experience only slightly less pleasurable than a swim in wet cement. The workers mentioned the a ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36232

    #RoseberryTopping #19thcentury #AccessRights

  27. 90 Metres of Progress: The Curious Case of a New Bridleway

    It is a curious thing, is it not, that the powers-that-be, in their infinite wisdom, believed they could neatly parcel up the English countryside like so many slices of cake, each path and bridleway served with a side of bureaucracy. Under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949, a grand endeavou ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36179

    #ClevelandHills #ClevelandWay #CringleMoor #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  28. 90 Metres of Progress: The Curious Case of a New Bridleway

    It is a curious thing, is it not, that the powers-that-be, in their infinite wisdom, believed they could neatly parcel up the English countryside like so many slices of cake, each path and bridleway served with a side of bureaucracy. Under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949, a grand endeavou ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36179

    #ClevelandHills #ClevelandWay #CringleMoor #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  29. <— To Highcliffe Nab <—

    It struck me as a bit peculiar that explicit directions to Highcliffe Nab were considered necessary. One might conclude that folks have frequently found themselves inadvertently ending up at the nearby farm. However, upon closer observation, the reason became apparent: the gate stands firmly padlocked. Despite its designation as a Public Footpath, no stile offers passage. One ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32724

    #HighcliffNab #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  30. <— To Highcliffe Nab <—

    It struck me as a bit peculiar that explicit directions to Highcliffe Nab were considered necessary. One might conclude that folks have frequently found themselves inadvertently ending up at the nearby farm. However, upon closer observation, the reason became apparent: the gate stands firmly padlocked. Despite its designation as a Public Footpath, no stile offers passage. One ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32724

    #HighcliffNab #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  31. Patches of blue, reflections and a spanking new gate—Highcliff Gate this morning

    In her dotage, my dog exhibits a distinct lack of enthusiasm for upland walks. This now renders the crudely painted "DOGS ON LEADS" sign on the wooden rail of no matter to me. A threat for sure, yet not a command. A "PLEASE", though, would have aided in conveying the message in a less intimidating manner.

    ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32722

    #Guisborough #HighcliffNab #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  32. Patches of blue, reflections and a spanking new gate—Highcliff Gate this morning

    In her dotage, my dog exhibits a distinct lack of enthusiasm for upland walks. This now renders the crudely painted "DOGS ON LEADS" sign on the wooden rail of no matter to me. A threat for sure, yet not a command. A "PLEASE", though, would have aided in conveying the message in a less intimidating manner.

    ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32722

    #Guisborough #HighcliffNab #NorthYorkMoors #AccessRights

  33. “Gerroff Moy Land!” and don’t even look at it

    On this rather dreich morning, I found myself compelled to focus my photographic endeavours closer to home.
    When I first moved into the village, the scene before me would have been an open field stretching toward a gate nestled in the distant hedge. However, as time has gone by, the path has become enclosed by fences on either side. The left side saw pa ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=33839

    #GreatAyton #NorthYorkshire #AccessRights

  34. “Gerroff Moy Land!” and don’t even look at it

    On this rather dreich morning, I found myself compelled to focus my photographic endeavours closer to home.
    When I first moved into the village, the scene before me would have been an open field stretching toward a gate nestled in the distant hedge. However, as time has gone by, the path has become enclosed by fences on either side. The left side saw pa ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=33839

    #GreatAyton #NorthYorkshire #AccessRights

  35. Ernaldsti, never a RUPP

    Ernaldsti, that medieval track associated with the Percy family crossing Hutton Moor, down Percy Rigg and over to Ralph Cross, via Westerdale. I suspect that the true line of this historical route over the moor lies concealed within the hollow-way, just a stone's throw to the right of the modern track, and to the left of that spruce sapling.

    Although the tr ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32726

    #HuttonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #PercyRigg #AccessRights #Ernaldsti

  36. Ernaldsti, never a RUPP

    Ernaldsti, that medieval track associated with the Percy family crossing Hutton Moor, down Percy Rigg and over to Ralph Cross, via Westerdale. I suspect that the true line of this historical route over the moor lies concealed within the hollow-way, just a stone's throw to the right of the modern track, and to the left of that spruce sapling.

    Although the tr ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=32726

    #HuttonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #PercyRigg #AccessRights #Ernaldsti

  37. Defending access rights - we have a right to swim in Scotland - parkswatchscotland

    The #RighttoRoam campaign has taken a far broader approach to #AccessRights than has traditionally been the case in #England and has been building a broad campaign for a new legal right of #access on the #Scottish model.

    parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2023/

  38. An earlyish wander around Scarth Wood Moor

    Overcast with a patch of heavy drizzle.

    This is the famous Sheepwash. Where the Hambleton Drove Road fords Crabtree Beck. A popular honeypot in the post-war car boom, but that was before the Cod Beck Reservoir was built.

    The grassy footpath opposite is not shown on the O.S. map as a Right of Way, but I am pleased to see that an Application for a D ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31620

    #NorthYorkMoors #ScarthNick #Whorlton #AccessRights

  39. An earlyish wander around Scarth Wood Moor

    Overcast with a patch of heavy drizzle.

    This is the famous Sheepwash. Where the Hambleton Drove Road fords Crabtree Beck. A popular honeypot in the post-war car boom, but that was before the Cod Beck Reservoir was built.

    The grassy footpath opposite is not shown on the O.S. map as a Right of Way, but I am pleased to see that an Application for a D ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31620

    #NorthYorkMoors #ScarthNick #Whorlton #AccessRights