Footpaths in Scrooby

Scrooby, and North Nottinsghamshire in general, is short of footpaths.

This is due to the history of the Midlands landscape. Agricultural communities living in nucleated villages surrounded by large arable fields did not require an extensive network of footpaths, bridleways and access roads. Furthermore, the Parliamentary Enclosure movement of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century tended to scrub all extranious routes off the map. Generally the routes into and out of a North Nottinghamshire village have become the main surfaced roads of the current era. A few less popular routes to neighbouring villages may survive as public footpaths, bridleways or byways.

So, walkers, runners, cyclists and horseriders are going to find themselves on the pavement or the road, even if some of their route lies on the more pleasant off-road rights of way.