THE NATIONAL Trust has admitted there has been a mix-up in the organisation after they were forced to remove a new cattle grid from Penwith Moors.

The grid covered the width of a bridleway near Garden Mine on Watch Croft preventing horse riders from their right to ride the track.

Following complaints by Save Penwith Moors action group, the landowning charity has been compelled to remove it and admitted their mistake. "It was too close to the bridleway and there has been a mix up in the organisation," NT property manager Jon Brookes admitted. "We couldn't move it to one side and didn't want to put it to the moors so we moved it and we are going to use it somewhere else.

"It was a mix up by the National Trust. We are now going to sit down and see what we can come up with and what suits everybody else."

But Save Penwith Moors is demanding answers and calling the National Trust incompetent.

Co-ordinator Ian Cooke of Save Penwith Moors says money has been wasted. "The National Trust has done it again.

"Not content with the fiasco of the drain flooding public rights of way near the Four Parish Stone it has now been compelled to take out a newly installed cattle grid on a public bridleway.

"Is anyone to be held to account? Will the Trust be any better at managing the moors once cattle are grazing?

"On present record it is highly unlikely. It is time the unpopular Natural England Heath Project to enclose and graze iconic West Penwith moorland is abandoned, and the area restored to its previous state with removal of miles of recently erected barbed wire fences and numerous gates."

The National Trust is in the process of restoring parts of the West Penwith moors to heath land.

This is said to improve people's access to the moors, benefit wildlife and archaeology.

According to Save Penwith Moors action group, which has been campaigning against fencing and grazing, the project is burying West Ninth's ancient sites and strangling valuable heathland.