Peak District Green Lanes Alliance

Black Harry Lane, Longstone Edge area, has been confirmed as a bridleway following a recent public inquiry into the BOAT claim on the lane. PDGLA convinced the Inquiry Inspector a) that the route is historically a bridleway and b) that its use by off-road vehicles during the critical 20 years prior to the BOAT claim was both insufficient to establish a right of way for vehicles and had been possible only by destroying walls and winching out boulders put on the lane by landowners to try and prevent vehicle use.