I recognize that there are many landowners, farmers and crofters who remain genuinely concerned about public access.
Today, for fear of its desecration, Stonehenge is usually shut off to public access on midsummer's eve.
Nevertheless, in contemporary usage the term has become synonymous with public access to the Internet, social inclusion, broadband and lottery largesse.
In the middle section there is still a fair amount of riverside paths but in the upper reaches and tributaries public access is patchy.
If you wish to go further you will need to be instructed by a solicitor or undertake the training of public access.