i've requested a map from O.S that should show me where I can go - has anyone gone off-road (legally) in this location? or can recommend other locations?

nobody?

try over on disco3.co.uk - those guys are much more knowledgable

Sorry I don't know that area - but the National Park Authority down there do appear totally anti green laning - with the classic quote on their website being

"We want bikers and 4x4 drivers to realise that the National Park is not the place to bring their vehicles. There are plenty of legal places to pursue this activity but the Park isn’t one of them".

There may well be legal rights of way in the area in and around the National Park though. I suggest you search for the following websites and ask there for legal routes :

Wayfinder - an online resource that aims to show all vehicle rights of way.

Crag - the Countryside Recreation Action Group

Glass - the Green Lane Association

The other thing to do is contact the rights of way officer in the relevant local authority (although they can be very unhelpful if they decide you are a 4x4 terrorist - which sadly can be an all too common reaction by such public servants).

The local Landrover Owners Club should have a ROW officer who is more helpful - but also can be a little reluctant to disclose local lanes if they fear you might use them indiscriminately.

Land Rover Owners Magazine publish green lane routes - check out their website. And finally, be careful 'cos the ordanace survey map can be an unreliable source of rights of way off tarmac. They often dont mark all routes and some they do mark may have been "closed" by traffic regulation orders.

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Smarticus wrote:

Land Rover Owners Magazine publish green lane routes - check out their website.

I can guarantee a luke-warm reception for anyone using the routes published in LRO. I live next to a ford that is regularly featured in the mag and within hours of it hitting the doormat you can hear the knuckle-dragger in the modified Disco1 and his pikey mates revving the out of things and ripping the lane and the ford to pieces. This continues for about 3 weekends to the point that the landowner, the farmer and myself (regular users of the ford as it's the main route to one of the farms) get abuse hurled at us by tourists visiting the village.

This spring they managed to dig a further 18" out of the river bed in one afternoon with their Simex KnobGobbler tyres, neatly soiling the driver's seat of my D3 when I found the hole that evening with water surging up to the windscreen

For routes in that neck of the woods it's worth going on Disco3, as suggested by Kaine, as a few of the more active members are based around that part of the world  Two lives - lived one

This season, oi be mostly toasting my left leg in the 90 while the missus drives the D3