ROB 110 HICAP
4th May 2005, 12:05
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Interested if anyone has info on this section of track near Rhayader. Its the bit marked as unfenced track from the bridge to the UCR.
I have used it in the past as it used to be marked as byway on old maps. The gate to the bridge was often padlocked and had 'private' notices. The local word was that you had to use the ford next to the bridge.
Then I heard that Severn Trent water own the track and its byway status has been removed, even if you used the ford.
Then recently I heard locally that it was still driveable and someone has forged Ceredigion council notices saying it was closed.
Having been there recently, there are indeed notices saying it is closed and that the old maps are wrong. These notices have a Ceredigion council 'crest' printed on them and are cheap laminated affairs. They do not resemble the official 'TRO' style you normally see around the country.
The point is, are these forgeries someone has produced by cutting and pasting the council crest with some map images, as has been suggested to me locally. I have seen variuos different types of unofficial signs to deter use over the years, mainly in the south-east.
It is also interesting that Powys classify the track around the dam to this point as byway and where it crosses the border to Ceredigion (at the bridge), it ceases to be a byway, until it meets the UCR. Strange that proof if historical use stops at the bridge.
Anybody got any knowledge? That is all I know and won't be subsequently posting pictures of people driving it in Isuzus! (private joke)
Interested if anyone has info on this section of track near Rhayader. Its the bit marked as unfenced track from the bridge to the UCR.
I have used it in the past as it used to be marked as byway on old maps. The gate to the bridge was often padlocked and had 'private' notices. The local word was that you had to use the ford next to the bridge.
Then I heard that Severn Trent water own the track and its byway status has been removed, even if you used the ford.
Then recently I heard locally that it was still driveable and someone has forged Ceredigion council notices saying it was closed.
Having been there recently, there are indeed notices saying it is closed and that the old maps are wrong. These notices have a Ceredigion council 'crest' printed on them and are cheap laminated affairs. They do not resemble the official 'TRO' style you normally see around the country.
The point is, are these forgeries someone has produced by cutting and pasting the council crest with some map images, as has been suggested to me locally. I have seen variuos different types of unofficial signs to deter use over the years, mainly in the south-east.
It is also interesting that Powys classify the track around the dam to this point as byway and where it crosses the border to Ceredigion (at the bridge), it ceases to be a byway, until it meets the UCR. Strange that proof if historical use stops at the bridge.
Anybody got any knowledge? That is all I know and won't be subsequently posting pictures of people driving it in Isuzus! (private joke)