FOOTPATH campaigner Janet Evans is urging Culcheth residents to walk footpaths around the village – or risk losing them.
She said footpaths around the village were threatened by farmers and landowners ploughing right up to the field edge and overriding their existence.
Back in 2010, local residents, with the help of Warrington Borough Council, applied for designated footpath status to save several footpaths, as identified on Ordinance Survey maps, on land behind the barn conversion on Withington Avenue which were ploughed by a tenant farmer towards the end of the year.
As a result, designated footpath status was granted in 2013 making the paths a public right of way.
But the path at the back of Culcheth Hall Drive has gradually overgrown and until recently was almost impassable.
Now the council has cleared this designated footpath making it passable from Twiss Green Lane across the fields and onto Withington Avenue.
Footpath campaigner Janet said: “Please walk this path to keep it passable. Our village footpaths have been walked for many decades – they can be seen on local ordinance survey maps.
“If you value your right to keep our village footpaths, walk them, preserve that right for you and your children.”
