Just at the moment though we are either responding to complaints from landowners / homeowners / farmers that we are not closing the paths through their land - or, we are responding to the public complaints about gates and stiles blocked by the above, or signs saying 'path closed'. A no-win...
Being a Public Rights of Way Officer, I'm ashamed that I didn't know about that first link. Pretty good stuff - what it is is data downloaded from a national site in progress, which are all the digitised 'Definitive Map of Public Rights of Way' (one for each county / unitary authority). Just...