ALL public rights of way in Teesdale are now open after restrictions on some farms with footpaths running through them were lifted.
This leaves only four of the county's network of more than 4,300 rights of way still closed in the aftermath of foot-and-mouth disease.
"The only paths in the county that are still closed are four near Blanchland," said Chris Tunstall, Durham County Council's director of environment and technical services.
These total just over three and-a-quarter miles, or 6.3km, and account for 0.2 per cent of the 2,000-mile network.
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