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British Foot Paths are Living History | UK vs US - Zábava
In the UK, there are laws that give the public the right to walk across our beautiful countryside - no matter who owns the land. Of course, you must keep to the footpaths and not stray onto surrounding private property. However, you would not find yourself face to face with a rifle should you happen to take a wrong turning!
Near to where I live, a footpath takes you right through a farmyard complete with stables and sheep pens. The farm owners are happy to let you watch the lambing or pet the horses.
I love the fact that people feel free to enjoy the countryside here and to feel part of the history of our nation simply by walking along its paths (many of which date back hundreds and even thousands of years).
I'm subscribed to Mac's channel. He lives with his lovely family in the Bristish Midlands and together they've explored many parts of the UK and Ireland. He lives on a farm and is truly appreciative of the UK seasons, its history and geography. He's a gently spoken family man who makes every effort to explain the differences and similarities between the US and the UK - especially for those Americans who might want to live in the UK. Well worth checking out his channel imho.
Footpaths and bridleways are everywhere in the UK and clearly marked. Something in the order of 140,000 miles. We are a nation of walkers and invariably at some point they pass near to a nice country pub for a spot of refreshment. Great way to keep fit🚶♂️🚶♀️
Some std not clearly marked but most are
In the UK we call many of these paths ‘Public Rights of Way.’ They cannot be closed off, although some wealthy incomers have been known to try, unsuccessfully. I have spent my life walking the footpaths of the UK, from Land’s End to John O Groats. We have a very beautiful country.
Lets hope that it stays that way. Well done Sir/lady for your achievent and please keep going and enjoy our gorgeous country. Take Care.👍
Scotland has right to roam unlike England up here in Scotland we have the right to walk over any piece of ground but with some common courtesy such as do not walk over crops or disturb farmers animals. And we have had many rich folk even English not just foreigners coming here and trying to stop everyone from walking their land and ending up in court and loosing.
About 15 years ago someone had to remove around £30,000 worth of fencing
@@HootMaRoot So they should! 😊. We have ‘Right to Roam’ down here, but only in designated areas. There is a large area of right to roam land near where I live in Lancashire. It’s only theoretical right to roam, because every time I try to walk it I nearly break my bloody ankle.
I don’t know the history of it in Scotland, but we only won the right to roam and the legality of rights of way after the ‘mass trespass’ in 1932 on Kinder Scout, which was actually organised by the Young Communist League…. Which is interesting….
I remember Madonna being very USAmerican in her views on public rights of way when she discovered one went right the way through her new property (surprised the solicitors didn't tell her about it, maybe she thought she knew best) and she spent a lot of money trying to get it closed, or at least relocated. She lost but the stupid thing was, I don't remember ANY photos being published showing the house and grounds or the family outside (which was one of the reasons she claimed the public right of way had to be closed, for her privacy) and I don't remember any examples of tresspassers or threats from the ''I hate Madonna'' brigade, another reason I seem to recall she protested against it.
@@HootMaRoot Sturgeon will probably introduce a right to walk tax on privately or Government owned land next. Don't give the Sturgeon and Co any ideas please.
That left me wanting to see other ancient footpaths. It was very enjoyable. Britain has so much beautiful scenery. It's so green and lush. Very different to Australia's colours.
The irony is a farm is the most common place to find a shotgun! 🇬🇧
This guy and his family make some great videos here in the UK.
His voice is so chill and calming. Footpaths are freedom. These fields are beautiful unless you have hayfever!
We have footpaths all over the UK countryside I don't know anywhere without them. You can find them just off most roads signposted. Or look them up on a ordinance survey map.
I should let my parents know about this.
After their walk from the Netherlands to Spain, I'm sure they'd love these foot paths!
And I wouldn't mind going there myself either.
The part of our law that does this is called "customary law". If a footpath has existed since "time immemorial" (officially since 1189, but in practice since anybody can remember), and it was used "as of right" - no sneaking along when no-one was looking! - it becomes a "Right of Way", and the landowner can't block it unless they can produce a very good reason to a court.
The official maps in the UK are produced by the "Ordnance Survey", and these Rights of Way are marked on their Explorer series of maps. So one of the glories of England and Wales is that you walk as of right all over our beautiful country. Some Rights of Way have been joined together into trails, such as the Offa's Dyke Path along the boundary of England and Wales, or the Pennine Way in northern England.
The position of Scotland is even freer, because there is no law of trespass. 1n 1999 we were given the "Right to Roam" in the high wild areas of England and Wales.
Rapeseed is now frequently planted for oil in England; the only snag is that many people get hay fever from the flowers! I believe you call it "canola" in the US.
In Scotland they have even more freedom to walk in 'open' spaces under what is known as the Freedom (or Right) to Roam Act". This does not give you 'carte blanche' to walk everywhere, but does provide more access to areas most people may not think they could go. You must follow 'common sense' rules (i.e. not littering, ensuring to close any gates that are opened for access, not starting fires or allowing a dog to harass animals or similar).
Thus, the Land Reform Act 2003 gives everyone rights of access over land and inland water throughout Scotland, subject to specific exclusions as long as they behave responsibly.
Was going to comment about this but you did it much better than I could have. 👍
@@Spiklething - Cheers, much appreciated. It took me a good twenty + minutes of 'playing around' to cut out a LOT of waffle, to make an easy to understand comment - Really I should have just said 'Google it' - LOL !
Mac has a great channel.
He's a really nice guy, nice family and he is so chilled out and calm
The landowners have to make sure the path is usable, it can't be ploughed up and destroyed
Its all about the right to roam. You can use the path, but not trespass.
There are ancient footpath all across the UK, between fields, villages and towns.
Some grew and became roads, which is why they're not straight because they used to go between different landowners properties
I was born in a small village in the countryside and would play in the farmers fields with friends, I miss it a lot and would love to go back.
Mate, they are everywhere.
If you imagine yourself in millennia passed, these pathways were the (almost) direct route between villages for walking.
You should even be able to see the next villages church spire as a guide.
These are trails conecting one village to anothet in ancient times.
When you buy land.you dont buy the trail . The trail remains public property by right.. its illegal to attempt to block a footpath...there have been cases where a forgotten trail has been built upon..when realised..the property had been forced to be knocked down by laws dating back several thousand years. When you buy country land you check the deeds carefully...to see what trails if any cross your land.
You cannot change them..NO
You can have a public footpath moved a hundred metres its been done a number of times. There is a process to go through and the person wanting the footpath moved has to prove that he/she has a good reason. Often if you talk to the ramblers association and explain why they will advise and help.
@@Westcountrynordic yes l did know but for the usa guy l didnt bother with it ....
The key word is public. Any landowner who tried to block people using them would be in big trouble.
Where I used to live in Suffolk we had a public right of way across the fields to the local village, if you took the road it was about 4 miles each way but across the fields it was maybe a mile. But the path went right through the yards of two farms (and it did keep to the fences going though the fields, in several spots the path was on both sides of the fence so walkers could use the side without the cattle in the field when necessary) and the only thing they asked was that ALL dogs were kept on leads - pointing out politely that dogs off leads could be shot by the farmers for harming livestock. We had paths all around us - another one led to the local church, the houses had shifted after the black death in the 1300s and the church stood on it's own. Without the paths you would have had to take the roads which would have left us walking a couple of miles each way, across the fields maybe a 100-150 yards. Which is exactly why so many are there because they started as a route from A to B (hundreds, thousands, of years before cars) when you wanted to take the shortest distance when you were carrying the weeks provisions back from the nearest village/market or walking to church in the middle of winter.
I live in Derbyshire close to the Peak District National Park ,its riddled with Foot paths and ancient Bridle Paths ,you can walk through history ,Mountain Biking is only allowed on Bridle Paths aswell as horse Riding. 🐎. We had to fight for the right to Roam ,it was called the great trespass ,against Landowners who tride to keep working class off ,WE won , MADONNA when Bought a big house spent millions of pounds in court ,but lost .
Footpaths are all over Europe, from north to south, east to west
The paths were trod by the people, who traveled from village to village, before horse & carts...probably the most famous one, is the the Christian footpath in Spain, El Camino de Santiago
There are many by-laws called 'roaming rights' in the UK and in Scandinavia/Nordic countries, where land might be privately owned, but at the same time, all land is for the public to enjoy.
Just remember to close the gates after you...
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There are maps that you can by here in the UK (Ordinance Survey) detailing the Public Footpaths for each area of the Country.
Go anywhere in the UK buy an ordinance survey map. They show every public right of way, churches landmarks etc. There are 1000s of these. It is difficult to find an area where there are non in the countryside.
I might have seen some disbelief on your face when Mac mentioned the 'neolithic age ' of these footpaths . But it is true , these neolithic footpaths can be found all over Europe . Some are even carved into the top of a hill due to the massive passage of peoples by centuries ! Some off them were paved and widened by the romans if stategical for their armies and 'economics' .
I like old paths very much, in my part of Europe I know a single, 4100-5500 years old footpath leading literally in geodetically straight line from the altar of st. Mary's Basilica in Krakow (Poland), through Giżycko castle's chapel (Masuria) and through treshold of ducal palace in Rival (Tallin, Estonia) to as far as old burial mounds in Soumussalmi (Finland).
It is 1000 miles! But sadly nowadays only c.a. 10% of this path remained.
Another such path I know leads from altar of st. George' church in Buchatesti, through Kishinev (Moldavian Capital) to Riazań's cathedral bridge's tower. It is also between 4100 and 8600 years old.
Another leads in straight line from Torino's (Italy) castle's treshold to the Great Pyramid in Xi'An (China).
I know several dozens of those since I'm very interested in archeology and old religions.
He is lovely and so is his family. The country is criss crossed by such footpaths. All are mapped, most famously by Ordnance Survey,
Public footpaths in the UK countryside usually go along the edge of private fields.
People go on walks along the footpaths. Exercise, out in the country.
The footpaths are all over the place in the UK
We have something similar in Denmark. We have Hærvejen. Some of the roads are up to 4.000 years old. Portions of it has been converted to modern roads, but a lot of it is dirt roads for bikes and pedestrians, and are very popular as a hiking destination for campers on bicycles.
I'm really glad you found Mac's channel, lovely videos and his fantastic family, always great to watch. Love watching your channel too.😊
Thousands of miles of historic foot paths are protected by the right to roam their everywhere in the UK
The footpath does not 'cut across' the private property. The 'private' property was laid out across the existing footpath, the path was there first before the farm. Around here the paths are maintained by the local authority including the stiles, gates, foot bridges and direction markers.
Footpaths are all marked on maps, so you can buy a map covering a particular area and just set out. Most of them are signposted too, and can only be rerouted through a formal process giving lots of notice to users and allowing comments or objections. I absolutely adore getting put into our countryside.
Many of the paths will have been around for a long time. Thousands of years.
In England we have something called "Freedom to Roam" which mean by law we are legally allowed to cross anybody else's property as long as we stick to the designated footpaths. This goes back thousands of years. People in England love the outdoors and love to hike and walk so these footpaths let people quickly cross areas that would normally take quite a while to walk around.
The public footpaths are everywhere throughout the UK in the countryside even in cities and most are clearly marked on maps and there are usually signposts and arrows directing you which way to go.
In years gone by the fields were smaller, so that path would have been on the edge of a field. However when they removed hedgerows to make the fields larger, for both practical and economic reasons, the foot path (right of way) had to stay where it was, according to the historic maps.
Many of the footpaths are the old paths between villages and/or between villages or houses and places or work or shops/store
The UK footpaths are lovely, I use them almost daily when walking dogs. Often the paths go through pastures with cows, horses or sheep on them, and in the winter they're often muddy, but as long as you've got proper shoes and know what you're doing, they can be used all around the year.
Finland has a similar attitude towards private land, but it works somewhat differently. Generally you can't walk on any field when the crops are growing, but after the harvest season it's generally fine all through the winter until ground thaws again in the spring. You can also go to almost any Finnish forest at any time of the year and roam freely, but you're not allowed to make open fire, cut or collect any living plants, or hunt without the landowners permission. You can however go berry picking (bilberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, sometimes wild raspberries etc.) or pick mushroom even on privately owned land.
It's common courtesy to not go too close to the houses in Finnish countryside, except in some areas where the mostly used paths cut right through people's backyards. My family has a summer cabin (mökki) on an island just off the south coast, and as there's no roads the only way to the main village is a footpath that passes through maybe 30 other cabin's yards, often right past the houses, and people just say hi or stop to have a chat when you walk onto their property 😄 In cities people own much smaller plots of land and often build fences around them, but there's roads in those areas anyways, so no reason to go to anyone's private land. (But even if you did, you wouldn't be shot, just asked to leave at worst.)
We've got thousands of them!
Lucky
I'm blessed to live 3 miles from The Ridgeway which is Britain's oldest road and very close to the oldest carved white horse, believed to be a bronze age carving.
FOOTPATHS ARE PROTECTED BY LAW IN UK
That’s good
England isn’t England without its footpaths and we are a nation of walkers and roamers. It’s literally a hobby for most Brits to go of walking along the country lanes and footpaths to keep fit or just for pleasure and on the way you’ll find a village pub or cafe to sit for a while with some refreshments and a bit to eat. Then you continue your walk until you find the next pub along the route. It’s our right as it is our home and its also our countryside to be able walk freely where we want as long as you stick to the public footpaths which gives the public right of way. No outsiders can take that right away from us nor matter how rich or powerful they maybe.
What you sometimes see is where the public walk through a small piece of private property, is a sign saying this path is not dedicated to the public.
That is to prevent a non right of way path from becoming one by regular use over the years.
What he didn’t show is the sign that indicates where the footpath is, the signs are wooden saying public bridleway or public footpath a lot of them are old. There are some footpaths not far from where I live and where Lawrence Brown Lost in the pond use to live. Here in Lincolnshire the farmers plough the footpaths not all but a lot of them.
In the U.K. countryside footpaths are everywhere
A right of way is a path that anyone has the legal right to use on foot, and sometimes using other modes of transport. Legally, a public right of way is part of the Queen's highway and subject to the same protection in law as all other highways, including trunk.
The legal right arising from a public footpath is to "pass and repass along the way". A user may, however, stop to rest or admire the view, providing they stay on the path and do not cause any obstruction or damage.
Howdon you style your hair? It's amazing
the land owner has to maintain any public footpaths across their land by law
To understand maintenance, and its importance you should try and do long distance hiking. In the US, the major hikes would be the AT and the PCT.
Been looking into those trails just recently and was blown away that it could take up to 7 months to complete just one!
We’ve always had these footpaths, but from 2000 legally the British walker has the right to roam, meaning we can use the footpaths but we have to stick to them.
I think it goes back to The Peasants Revolt? Where land had to be given to people to use for living and travelling? 😊 I’m not 100% sure. Like a lot of things in the UK, it’s just historical and unspoken rights and stuff 😅❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸
Actually we won the right to roam in 2000 where all of the footpaths can be used, not just the ones in notional parks
You have the right to roam in britain. But you have to be respectful. Don't drop litter. Don't walk over crops. Avoid going near grazing animals. Close gates behind you. If someone s working in the field always give them right of way. Oh and don't walk in winter. It's just mud.
I see you got a tad annoyed because of that comment about you looking at your watch during videos 😆
Whats so special about them? that some are like 7000year old is pretty special.
To give you an ideea about shooting i am 40 y i never heard in my live a shooting in real live ,in the movies and when kids was playing in the past with toy guns i heard or saw shooting, and never ever heard a shooting in my live, and my kids also and so on. You hear shooting here only if you are in the army on traned filled or if you are a police officer so on..but on the strets ,or in an open space with ppl rarelly to non❤ about the path yes it s true❤
That’s beautiful
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This starts with the notion of entitlement to the general public because of [age old] habits. This may be called common law in English, but it's not necessarily written. You'll find "right of way" as [silently] inherited liabilities attached to "property" in many places in Europe. Yes, the UK are king of this, I guess. You'll find this city palace in Paris with a nice walled entrance/garden section in front of the building, where the owner and guests would ceremoniously enter. But then, where the garden wall starts left and right at the front facade, there's a small door on either side. Because the commons had their right of way from before the palace was built. Considering the UK never had a revolution to take nobility down, that may not exist in the UK. The Brits even keep walking the public footpaths as a way to maintain the common law - they're not always clearly marked and sometimes farmers or land owners intentionally forget the presence of these footpaths, hoping to be able to close the public footpath on their property after some time having neither been used, nor been claimed, by the public.
Driving my car 100 km/h (62 mi/h) on a UK dual carriage way - not a motorway, but for fast traffic only maybe also called expressway, freeway - I was totally flabbergasted seeing the guardrail interrupted along the sides and in the middle with a warning sign before, indicating that a "public bridleway" was to cross and consequently to expect horses with their riders to traverse there.
1645ish Charles 1st Vs parliament, Charles was prosecuted,had his head chopped off and we became a republic, until we decided that Oliver Cromwell was a puritanical dick who banned Christmas celebrations, drinking and generally anything fun, so when he died, we invited Charles 1st son, Charles 2nd to come back, with a few provisos, namely, he could be king, but parliament rules th land.
There's actually been a law to compile these public rights of way into a definitive map the deadline for registration has now passed, I believe. Which means that even if people are still walking a path if it wasn't registered in time then its not protected by law and conversely if there is a registered path that doesn't have foot traffic it will still be protected.
@@martingibbs1179 - thank you, didn't know that. So, some land owners got lucky now.
@@jpdj2715 Maybe, but probably not that many. Many footpaths had already been marked on the ordinance survey by 1890. The current law just created a definitive list and from a certain perspective could be said to prevent the creation of new footpaths.
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