Yes, you have right as per The Easement Act and nobody can deny it, without paying single penny to them they have to allow you road or path way access till you're land from main road.
RIGHT TO WAY
A right of way is a right to pass over the soil of another person uninterruptedly. Rights of way do not fall under the denomination of natural rights. They are discontinuous easement, and may be acquired in the same way as the other easements are acquired.
There are two classes of right of way
(a) Public rights of way which exist for the benefit of all people. They are called highway.
Their origin is in dedication express or implied.
(b) Private rights of way. These are vested in particular individuals or to owners of particular tenements: their origin is grant or prescription or belongs to certain classes of persons or certain portions of the public, such as the tenement of a manor, or the inhabitants of a parish or village, their origin is custom.
From your father's time you are using the way and suddenly they can't stop.