Barbed wire is also often added to the top of the stile.
The Canyon was common land before the opencast in the 60s, so in 1964 when the opencast finished it should have been retuned to common land, so all could roam in there once more.
The powers that be let the community down and didn't legally make this happen, but locals have used it like common land, for many activities including walking and enjoying the unique features of the Canyons like the blue lagoon and amazing cliff faces.
The owners of the Canyon trying to stop us visiting the lake is unacceptable.
So we need to get the authorities to do what they should have done in the 60s, and make this ground open access.
One of the ways we can do this is to collect evidence that people have been going down to the blue lagoon for more than 20 years. This is how we make the path people have taken since the 60s official by getting it on the "Definitive map"
For this we need to contact people who have walked this route and get them to fill in evidence forms.
Public Right of way evidence form in PDF
Public Rights of Way evidence form MS Word doc
