Footpath Erosion in the Yorkshire Dales National Park

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Footpath Erosion in the Yorkshire Dales National Park

        I decided to look at what is the effect on footpath erosion because of being in a national park. Footpath erosion has become a major problem in the Yorkshire dales, the Yorkshire Dales Park Authority started a project called Three Peaks project which is a counter erosion scheme. The main problem is places at honey spots, which are most frequently used because of the amount of people walking on them this is shown photograph #24. It is shown here that walkers have to walk round the path further adding to the erosion.

If Upper Nidderdale were to put in the national park they would suffer these pressures and would have to make additional footpaths that are hard wearing such as the ones in Malham but this would cause a blot on the landscape.

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One major factor is walker’s boots because they kick away and break down the surface but this is by means no means the only factor. It is not only the walkers that cause the erosion the bike and the heavy footfall of fell runners who can also break the ground up.

It is not only human impact that makes the footpaths wear down, the livestock has been a primary source of some of the most serious surface on the surface because there feet break down the surface also they eat all the roughage on the surface without this the soil ...

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