Ramblers have campaigned for the "right to roam"

A senior member of the county branch of the Ramblers' Association is among those listed.

The landowners claim some areas have been wrongly included as places where people do not have to stick to paths.

Ramblers have been campaigning for decades for free access to mountain, moorland and heaths.

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 granted ramblers the "right to roam" but defining exactly what land is covered is proving a problem.

At least 40 Cumbrian landowners are now listed on the internet as lodging appeals against the final draft of the map.

They include farmers, shooting estates, and Malcolm Petyt, who has often spoken publicly on behalf of the Ramblers' Association in Cumbria.

He says a parcel of land near Sedbergh has been wrongly shown as open country.

Appeals will be heard through the coming year.