A neglected area of South Derbyshire - Sutton on the Hill, Thurvaston, Osleston and Longford

In this bush is a footpath sign. This is on Back Lane, Sutton on the Hill. This very pleasant area (about 5 miles south of Ashbourne) has some of the worst footpath problems I have encountered in the county. On a day's walk I came across ten problems that I felt had to be brought to the attention of the DCC PROW team. The sad thing is that most of the problems were here five years ago and I have the photographs to prove it.

To be fair to Longford, their paths were in better condition than the others.

More recent photos are here.

First the Old Plough has gone and now the footpath is being moved!

This is all that's left of the Old Plough at Weston: an attractive old pub flattened to make way for a housing estate. That's bad enough but now the footpath is going to be moved from stone wall it used to follow to a pavement through the estate. It looks as if there's not much that can be done now. This is just a further degradation of our Right of Way system.