A National Trust *employee* who has been working on a large project by them to update path details across their estate has updated it. To the best of my knowledge they are not a “wannabe”. They have made significant, detailed, and correct edits in other areas of the Lake District recently. I do not doubt their credentials.

The path update project (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/National_Trust_Paths) uses the National Trust’s existing database of path data, which I presume includes information about paths they’ve decided to close or discourage people from using for conservation reasons.

Advertising a path which is closed for conservation reasons is going to encourage people to use it, which is going to impact negatively on the conservation attempts. Presumably, closing a path on access land doesn’t always have to involve a “path closed” sign at the end of it, if the local NT employees judge that the trod isn’t sufficiently obvious to lure people onto it if it’s not on a map.