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Okay. The reason I didn't state originally that it was a farm drive is because in my opinion is that that is irrelevant. A private drive is a private drive whether it be a farm or otherwise. The farm is indeed in a cul-de-sac at the end of a half mile, single track road. There is a no through road sign at the other end where the 'lane', as we call it, meets the main road. Having a 'private' sign where the public highway meets the private road would probably have avoided the problem. However, since 1997 when the road was split, there has never been an issue before. Because of the no through road sign at the top of the lane, it is very rare for traffic, other than visitors, to travel down the lane. Even if they inadvertently do, they just turn round and go away again. It's just not a problem. In fact there's never been a problem of any kind before - until the arrival of the Google camera car. I talked about the private back garden scenario as an extreme example - a case of photographs being taken from a place which is not accessible to the general public. In my case, the photos include images of my garden shed (no boundary between my drive and the shed), parked cars on my driveway, Calor gas storage tanks etc - the camera is actually 'mingling' with my private property, if that makes sense, as opposed to being in the distance, which is the norm. Anyway, I feel now we're just going round in circles. The outcome of my original question isn't how I'd envisaged. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank those of you who've sent very useful links to how I can carry with my task. Kind regards to all of you