Readers of land rover owners international misinformation

[wadey]

Not sure if i posted tis in the right area sorry if i havent
 This was posted on another forum i us and have been asked to pass it on
In this months LROi is a Greenlaning Handbook with 20 of the' Best Greenlanes' in the UK in it

Number 5 is based on an area of the Somerset Wetlands, including SSSI's and nature reserves.

All bar three of the routes marked are private access routes to pasture - the three that aren't are tarmaced public roads.

All these private routes are dead ends with no turning points; they are bounded by very deep drainage ditches, built from clay over willow bundles. They are called summer droves - the name gives it away

Driving droves that are NOT marked as UCR's and are not on the county definative map is illegal

The local RoW offices form Somerset County Council has been informed as have the land owners - they are not happy bunnies

Illegal use will result in the loss of the offenders vehicle and some big fines!

Please post this on other forums if not already done so

[kizz81]

is this actually true? or is it more poo mixing between the two magazines and their followers??

[Llanigraham]

NO IT IS TRUE, COMES FROM THE LOCAL GLASS REP.

Seems also to be a problem in Norfolk over their "recommendation" of the Peddars Way.

[glaggs]

The 'Holmfirth' route or at least parts of it were closed due to construction work the last time we went up there, and according to guys involved in the work they wouldn't be reopening the lanes to vehicles due to missuse in the area. Don't know the latest as haven't been up there this year yet.

[Disco Matt]

I had a look at the LRO site earlier, there was nothing about this on their homepage. IMO they should have a large banner warning people about these errors.

There are a few threads in their forum, one of which includes the suggestion that it's up to the driver to check legality. While I agree, I feel that it's still out of order for a publication of any sort to print incorrect information and then apparently not do anything about it. It's too late to recall the booklets but they could still put a warning on their site and in the next issue.

[carracarra13]

I have the offending mag with the artical in very imbarrsing for a large well known mag, one heck of allot of pepole WRONGLY take these green lane sections as gosple THEY ARE NOT the owness is on you the driver to check that the rought you are to drive is a  vercular right of way
as said before if it is not and you are cought on private land you could get prosicuted for trespass and loose your verchal, so be very careful ther are a number of cases pending in norfolk at the moment two of my friends are chalanging two ristricted byways that are still marked as BYways Norfolk county council bless them wooden post clearly say Byway nothing about ristricted or otherwise nothing to say if there is one tro ether will keep you posted on results

[TDi90]

[throw it] poor.  :(

[hairyasswelder]

Dont forget the letters page which states a 2000 P38 will 'pay a lower road tax in the UK'  if running lpg   ;)

Also have you noticed when anyone asks for tyre reccomendation it is nearly always COOPER ST's  :shock:

[kizz81]

having just read lrm only picked out one point thats strange :lol:

the club of the month saying they only use sustainable green lanes ( when the picture is of a yellow 90 on chapel gate i know this as i have the same picture of mine dinting its sills on the same drop  :lol: )

[carracarra13]

I wonder wgho there sponsers are?