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I have permissions on a local farm that adds up to about 1000 acres. When I first got the permissions the farmer drove me around in his land rover showing me which fields belonged to the farm etc and said that they were due to be drawing up maps for their shooters so we knew exactly which fields were theirs.

 

Anyway, that was about 8 months ago, and after numerous calls, the farm manager still hasn't got around to producing these maps, and there's no way I can remember all the fields he showed me, and wondered whether there was somewhere I could find a map myself that would name which fields belong to which farm in a particular area.

 

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wondered whether there was somewhere I could find a map myself that would name which fields belong to which farm in a particular area.

 

No such thing available to my knowledge, as a farmer and surveyor. The easiest means to map it all out is buy an OS Explorer map of the area (1:25,000 scale), get the farm manager to draw on all the boundaries and field names in pencil, and then you can make copies to colour/highlight as necessary. I have lots of digital mapping tools at my disposal through work, but I find the simplest solution to be the best.

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Buy an Ordnance Survey Map book (not the pamphlet type thing, they split after being opened a few times) for your area and ask to sit down with the Farm Manager to mark off the relevant fields ( I just put the Farm or Farmers initials per field).

It usually takes about 10 minutes.

 

I do this and always explain that I could lose my licence, plus catch a lot of other grief, if I am caught shooting on the wrong fields.

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  • 2 weeks later...

as said by chris ''

 

 

go to google hom,e page

 

on the top click on maps

 

type in a post code or area

 

then click satalite

 

zoom in to find the field's

 

then print it of and get the farmer to mark them put his name on the top with his phone number laminate it and leave it in the car whaen you go ....

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as said by chris ''

 

 

go to google hom,e page

 

on the top click on maps

 

type in a post code or area

 

then click satalite

 

zoom in to find the field's

 

then print it of and get the farmer to mark them put his name on the top with his phone number laminate it and leave it in the car whaen you go ....

 

Trouble is I found that when try to do that it just prints off a blank page with nothing on?

 

is there something i am doing wrong?

 

Regards

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All farms, at least those that claim single payment subsidies and stewardship grants, have there holdings registered on the rural land register administered by the Rural Payments Agency (not the Land Registry) so the farm manager should have some of these you can photocopy. You won't be able to get hold of this yourself through the RPA though.

 

www.magic.gov.uk lets you outline areas on OS maps and print them out.

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Hi,

 

Once you have sorted out where the actual boundaries of your permission are, have a look at this:

http://wheresthepath.googlepages.com/wheresthepath.htm

This shows 2 maps of the same bit of land side-by-side, one as a satellite view, the other as an OS map, showing al the footpaths.

Very, very handy...

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