[Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 68, Issue 20

[Mike Harris]

Don't forget the (relatively) new plum-coloured waymarks for Restricted 
Byways (which replaced RUPPs).

The more-or-less definitive guide to waymarking of public rights of way 
in England & Wales is at:

http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/31037

As others have correctly said, there is flexibility in the scheme and 
various Highway Authorities have local variants - but the colour scheme 
is pretty invariant. White is also used for officially recognised 
permissive ways. Of course mistakes are made but the practice is 
reasonably well followed anywhere I walk.

If a path has an appropriate finger post at each end (as required by law 
where it leaves the county road) I would feel able to record the way as 
a public right of way (of appropriate status) even without intervening 
waymarking so long as the intervening route on the ground was reasonably 
unambiguous and without branches.

Finger posts are normally installed by the Highway Authority's 
contractors. Waymarks are variously placed by Highway Authority 
employees or contractors - or by authorised individuals (of which I am 
one!) in footpath charities.

A possible source of confusion is that yellow waymarks (for visibility) 
are often also used for named trails which may not always be along 
public rights of way. Good practice is to use white waymarks where the 
path is merely permissive. But be wary of waymarks which carry the name 
of a trail - these have no statutory significance.

"White roads" are - as Phil says - tricky. The Highway Authority should 
have a publicly available "List of Streets" - sometimes on line - 
showing which are "county roads". This should be public domain 
information (it is a statutory duty funded by the taxpayer!) but ask 
your HA to confirm.

OS - as usual - is unreliable in these matters - most often because it 
can be a decade or more out-of-date - however often we (and/or the HA) 
report changes and errors to them!

Mike

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