Me having a moan again!

Yesterday, while out walking (I will hopefully be submitting the route soon), we were on the 'home stretch' when we came across a field with a herd of bullocks in. Normally this would not bother me, but they (25-or-so of them) charged down the hill towards the gate and prevented us from getting in the field. Due to the fact that we were fairly tired-out, we did not want to risk walking through the field or opening the gate (since they were all leaning against it and I doubt we would have been able to have prevented them from getting in to the next field!). They were very frisky - and doing all sorts of strange things (especially strange due to the biological nature of bullocks!). In the end we had to walk back to the last road and get picked up (yes, we cheated) by car, since it was getting on for 10pm.

The path we were on was in fact a bridleway - I wouldn't have fancied my chances with a horse!

I have never had problems with livestock before, even with bulls, so I am not afraid of animals!

I have checked out the Leics County Council website to see what our rights are/were, and it appears that having livestock discourage use of a route is an offence. (I'm not going to follow it up though, there isn't a lot of point and it would be hard to prove, even with photographs). I believe it also counts as an 'illegal obstruction', in which case you are within your rights to 'take a short alternative route' around it... although I doubt that you can 'remove an illegal obstruction if you are unable to get past'... does anyone have a cattle truck?

Any opinions/comments on this would be welcome!