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Rambling enthusiasts fight BMW over 2 000-year-old bridleway

16 October 2007

Rambling enthusiasts are fighting motoring giant BMW® to keep a 2 000-year-old public access bridleway open.
 
BMW first applied to extinguish the path in May 2006 and offered to fund an alternative path around Oxford’s ring road, as the existing path runs across a section of the company’s plant that manufactures the Mini® in the city.
 
The case is now being heard in Witney Magistrate’s Court this weekend in the culmination of an 18-month campaign by the Ramblers’ Association to prevent BMW eradicating the bridleway.
 
The Oxfordshire right of way is used by over 400 people per day, according to the Ramblers’ Association, which is fighting the legal battle against BMW’s attempts to block the historic bridleway.
 
Andrew Morris, head of the Ramblers’ Association's footpath team, said: ‘BMW’s plans will deny hundreds of people per day a safe and quiet means of accessing work and the countryside beyond, endangering their health and safety as they are forced to trek along a busy road’.
 
He added that it was a ‘David and Goliath’ scenario as BMW has ‘assigned two barristers to the case’.
 
The right of way can be traced back on old maps as a Roman road and links the population of the Blackbird Leys estate with the surrounding countryside and the village of Horspath.
 
http://www.ramblers.org.uk/news/2007/bmwcase.html
 
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