Farmers should:
- Know where Public Rights of Way cross their land, and maintain stiles and bridle gates in good order.
- Refrain from obstructing the paths, and cut back overhanging vegetation.
- Refrain from ploughing a footpath or bridleway, which constitutes a headland of a field, or runs alongside a hedgerow.
- Ensure that paths across fields are reinstated two weeks after ploughing.
- Ensure that disturbance to paths following drainage schemes is put right without delay.
- Not allow any bull over ten months of age free range of any field through which a footpath or bridleway passes.
- Obtain the consent of the Borough Council before erecting new stiles or gates.
- Provide adequate bridges where new ditches are made or existing ones widened.
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