Image produced from the Ordnance Survey http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap
Felsham has just over seven miles of public footpaths which provide good links to many parts of the parish and to neighbouring villages. However, there is evidence that a number of footpaths that existed in about 1900 are "lost". These are footpaths that are clearly shown on earlier maps but which, for one reason or another, were not included in the definitive rights of way maps drawn up by the parish council and the county council in the 1950s and 1960s.
The map below highlights in green some of the footpaths that existed in 1900 and which were probably well-used up to the 1950s, but which are not designated Rights of Way:
The OS map of 1902-03 [2nd ed.] Reproduced by kind permission of Suffolk Record Office [Bury St Edmunds]
The historical background to the drafting of the Definitive maps can be found in:
Marion Shoard : « THIS LAND IS OUR LAND – the struggle for Britain’s Countryside », Paladin, 1987 pp 237 - 332
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