Public Rights Of Way Group News
Our Gnosall Public Rights of Way (PRoW) Group has started putting up the white footpath and bridleway number labels on fingerposts etc around the Parish, along with waymarker arrows. The labels were kindly funded by Gnosall Parish News and the waymarkers supplied by StaffordshireCounty Council. Work on surveying paths has been on hold over the Winter months, as the land has been waterlogged, but it is starting again now that Spring is here.
We are still searching for any historic paths that may have been missed from the network as the government's deadline for registering them approaches in 2026. One of our members did some research recently at Staffordshire County Records Office and found the cards stored there from footpath surveys done for Gnosall Parish Council in the 1950s. We are examining these closely. The Millennium Way, the disused railway line and part of the Sustrans National Cycle Network that runs through Gnosall, is well-used and popular - rightly so as it is a most attractive and useful route. The County Council own the land and designate it as a Greenway.
There has been a suggestion, supported by Gnosall Parish Council, that there should be an application made to have the part of the Millennium Way through the Parish of Gnosall, designated as a Public Right of Way, a bridleway, on the Definitive Map for Staffordshire. We will keep you posted of any developments. There are a number of very quiet footpaths in our patch if you are in lockdown because of the Covad-19 virus and would like to get out in the countryside occasionally for a walk. There is a section on the website www.gnosallparishcouncil.org.uk headed ‘Rights of Way’ where you can find plenty of information. If you would like to contact the group or join our trusty volunteers, please contact the Parish Office, or email me at mary.booth@gnosallparishcouncil.org.uk
Cllr Mary Booth
Chair of PRow Group
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