Hi Bob,
We recognise that the best practise is to map what actually exists on the ground.

One section of informal path that was removed had some use as indicated from the Strava heatmaps but was not a recognised path on the ground by the ranger team at the time. This may be the section of informal path you are referring to which forks through woodland below the Flitch Way. Having discussed this with the team we understand that this is in fact on the ground and as such I will put this section back into OpenStreetMap. However it crosses sensitive ancient woodland and the team are discouraging access and therefore the tags will be amended to reflect this.

Regards,
Jas