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uk_nick
Done a bit of off-roading in the Pas-de-Calais area.
I was a bit cautious about what we would find as it is not easy to identify public rights of way on the French regional maps.
We need not have worred as there were tracks everywhere. We passed plenty of farmers and even a local hunting party who just offered a friendly wave as we went past. No irate ramblers in France!
The general rule is to avoid any track with a no-entry sign or "Interdit au 4x4, Moto et Quads", but everything else seems to be fair game.
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ISTR there's been a recent judgement in France along the lines of "if it looks like a road/track, and there's no signs to say otherwise, then it is a road". Might want to check that though.
Be nice if we could have something similar here. Can think of plenty of tracks in the Peak District which have quarry trucks trundling up and down them every five minutes, but you can't ride a trail bike down there because it's classified as a bridleway/restricted byway. Fantasy though.