Notice about walking in the Countryside by local Farmer

People are welcome to walk in the countryside following the Countryside Code. But please do not just walk where you want! The footpaths are now increasing in width because of the footfall. A lot of people do not stick to the paths, including locals. People seem they can walk where they think they are entitled to go; despite the fact it is written on the gates to ask them to keep to the footpaths. Dogs urinate and defecate at will, which causes a problem with worms in the sheep which cannot be treated, because there is no remedy. Everybody needs to be more responsible about where they walk, and not walk across crops and grass fields, which ultimately provides their food, meat eater, vegetarian or otherwise, but to keep to the footpaths. A footpath in a field means just that – a path. Not a field that has got a public right of way all over it or, all around it. A footpath is just 1.5 meters only, not 6 metres which is currently a very big issue. We are in a rural economy and not in Churchill Square. We do not wish, and never will wish, for all footpaths to be tarmacked.