The OS 1:25,000, 1937-1961 shows a NW-SE public footpath connecting the end of Back North Lane, Timble with the N-S High Lane at Nether Timble, passing south of the farmhouse:
The OS Six Inch, 1888-1913 shows the same path, but it stops at a garden boundary, short of the N-S High Lane:
My guess is that the 1950ish 1:25K corrects surveying error in this 1900ish 6-inch – if a footpath were public it surely wouldn’t end in a dead end.
OS Maps Leisure seems to be taken as the definitive statement of public rights of way. It shows that the left-hand section of the footpath seen in the 1900ish and 1950ish mapping has been extinguished – how did the landowner achieve this? – but that the right-hand section continues to the N-S High Lane, as in the 1950ish mapping:
However, as this new satellite image shows, and as I found when out walking yesterday, the right-hand section of the path has also been extinguished de facto:
Again, how did the landowner wangle this, and is it in any way connected to the sale of Nether Timble farm in 2021 for £1.3 million and ongoing planning applications for conversion of the farm buildings (search LS21 2NW)?
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Maps: National Library of Scotland. Satellite image: Google. I always enjoy Historic England’s listings:
LITTLE TIMBLE HIGH LANE NORTH YORKSHIRE HARROGATE 5338 SE 15 SE (west side) 6/54 Nether Timble GV II
House. Early C17, with mid C19 alterations. Coursed squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with 2-storey porch to left. Inserted central C20 half-glazed door in plain surround; a blocked door with large lintel to right. Flanking 4-light recessed chamfered mullion windows, each with 2 mullions removed and square 4-pane frames inserted, and with hoodmoulds. First-floor windows similar, the left window probably heightened. Former porch: wooden canted-bay window to ground floor, first- floor string course and a 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window above with hoodmould, the mullion removed. Shaped kneelers and gable copings to porch and house, right. Large stepped external stack against left gable, the cap rebuilt, corniced stack right. Rear: added lean-to left with a small blocked window in the right return. Square recessed chamfered window centre. Kneelers and gable copings as front. Left return: door in plain surround to left of external stack, a square recessed chamfered window above. A lean-to wash and coal-house right. Right return: attached barn range not included in the listing. Interior not inspected at resurvey.
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