2014-05-31 An Other Observatory Ride

Is that a horse-riding path or could it be a landowner deliberately ploughing up a right of way across their property?

surely such a thing would be falling foul of some legality and punishable by summons to a court of justice?!

possibly via some of the (no-doubt wordy) legislation linked to here,

http://www.environmentlaw.org.uk/rte.asp?id=207

Footpaths on edge of a field must not be ploughed. Footpaths can be ploughed, if they cross fields. However, a minimum width of 1 metres must be made available within 14 days of ploughing. Landowners must also ensure that they restore footpaths after ploughing.

Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000,

{could be re-written (or re-coded) into a language more closely resembling that of English, instead of the language of English Law!}

this might be a reassuring key passage from Section Two,

Any person is entitled by virtue of this subsection to enter and Rights of public in [to]
remain on any access [common] land for the purposes of open-air recreation, if and relation to access land. so long as—
(a) he [or she] does so [with merriment], without breaking or damaging any wall, fence, hedge, stile or gate, and
(b) he observes the general restrictions in Schedule 2 and any other
restrictions imposed in relation to the land under Chapter II.