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Unofficial WebsiteCountryside Access
Real efforts have been and are being made by the Rotherham Rights of Way
Team and the Rotherham Local Access Forum to open up the countryside and make it more
accessible to members of the public. This is always a difficult one as making access to the
countryside easier for members of the public also means that you make it easier for the
undesirables like youths with air rifles and youths with motorbikes to make a thorough-going
nuisance of themselves.
The Rotherham Local Access Forum is a voluntary advisory body composed of landowners and farmers, user groups, and other interested parties. They have selected a number of parishes and targeted improvement works have been started in Woodsetts, Treeton and Catcliffe in 2005. Signposts have been replaced and extra waymarkers installed. For less able users, wheelchairs and pushchairs stiles have been replaced by kissing gates and paths resurfaced.
In Treeton new public footpaths have been created and joined with new permissive footpaths (waymarked with white arrows). It looks as if you can now walk along a section of the River Rother.
These improvement are the first stage of a project to improve the access to all the local countryside in Rotherham.