This Hidden Path Really Leads to Nowhere, Dartmoor, UK
Well of course these’s no place called „Nowhere“ around that sign, as far as I remember. What seems funny though, is the fact that mother nature is so active in these parts of Devon, that a sign is needed at all, to show walkers that there’s a path. It is also a very lovely reminder of a specific British tradition: The „Rights of way and accessing land“.
Britain loves their outdoor enthusiasts and therfor, according to gov.uk, there exists a specific „right to access some land for walking or certain other leisure activities.“ While public roads and pavements are of course accessible to the common hiker, they are also allowed to use footpaths or bridleways, and have a right „to roam on open access land including mountains, moors, heaths, downs, common land and some land around the England Coast Path“. Even private land may be used, if a landowner has given his or her permission, or if there’s a local tradition, or right, of access.
These facts also present the background for a rather funny storyline of M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley – that being a completely different story of course…
Andrea Härtlein ist selbstständige PR-, Social-Media- und Marketingberaterin und Geschäftsführerin der f2 digital services UG. Als Fachjournalistin und Autorin schreibt sie über Digitale Themen im Fachbereich Kommunikation, Medieninformatik und Mediendesign und unterrichtet als Dozentin für Social Media. Sie bloggt seit 2012 auf Snoop-in-a-box.com über Games und ist Mitherausgeberin des bilderundworte Online-Comicmagazins.
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