“continue to disrupt many farm businesses for years to come”

Or they could you know.

Assume the right of way exists and plan to work within it.

If the potential of it being a righr of way is effecting them in any way. Then they must know where ir is being debated.

If they are choosing to fight it. The doubt is entirly their creation.

Our stalwart guardians of the land right there, we make them work so hard for their tax free inheritance

I wish the NFU would decide what the hell their priorities are and then stick to them for 5 minutes. They seem to swing wildly from issue to issue, without ever really improving things for farmers.

I grew up on a farm and we had some tracks through our fields, it was a total non issue as long as people kept dogs on leads. One time we had a helicopter land in one of our fields and even that wasn't a problem, everything sprung back up after a while. Although immediately afterwards everything did kind of look like a mini nuke had gone off.

I mean, that’s kind of standard procedure in the UK, innit?

If in doubt, I’d say register them. It’ll be investigated then and them added to the digital register they’re creating if it is supposed to be a public path, and if not, at least someone notified them to look into it. If nobody tells them then it’s at risk of losing public access.