As seen on the very key you use the public footpath area is red line, not brown, the public signs from the council go through the woods amd also down through to branches church on the stepping out route.
Hill farm is not public according to our deeds nor the council signs.
We have had numerous people say "strava says we can do this" 
The council footpath signs along with the deeds say otherwise and even the stepping out route map does NOT indicate hill farms (the barn to hill farm cottage areas) as a through route