<P> As of 2008 the Cuckoo Trail remains incomplete insofar as the remaining section of the disused railway line north of Heathfield is largely inaccessible and in the ownership of 12 different individuals who have resisted attempts to establish a path / cycleway over their land . Until 1986 East Sussex County Council had 11 miles of the Cuckoo Trail to the south of Mayfield within its ownership but , seeking to reduce expenditure , it abandoned the early ideas of reopening it as a public footpath , and parcels of land were sold off in a piecemeal fashion . </P>
<P> As of 2008 the Cuckoo Trail remains incomplete insofar as the remaining section of the disused railway line north of Heathfield is largely inaccessible and in the ownership of 12 different individuals who have resisted attempts to establish a path / cycleway over their land . Until 1986 East Sussex County Council had 11 miles of the Cuckoo Trail to the south of Mayfield within its ownership but , seeking to reduce expenditure , it abandoned the early ideas of reopening it as a public footpath , and parcels of land were sold off in a piecemeal fashion . </P>
why were 11 miles of the cuckoo trail sold in 1986
why were 11 miles of the cuckoo trail sold in 1986
to reduce expenditure
to reduce expenditure