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infoAbout Project 2026

Project 2026 - British Horse Society

This is a national web based project with the aim of identifying routes which potentially are unrecorded Rights of Way and to record progress towards submitting Definitive Map Modification Order Applications. There is a separate sub-project for each County or Local Highways Authority area.

Background

The CROW Act 2000 contains legislation which extinguishes all historical Rights of Way that are not recorded on the definitive map by 2026.

Project Aim

The aim of our volunteer-led project is to ensure that, as far as possible, all unrecorded rights of way have been researched, and necessary steps taken to protect those rights from being extinguished on 1 January 2026. That will usually mean making an application to add unrecorded rights to the Definitive Map and Statement of Public Rights of Way for the relative highway authority and having the application recorded on the authority's register of applications.

Project Organisation
    . The Project is being coordinated by the British Horse Society working closely with the
      Ramblers and other user groups.
    . The project is being managed online via an interactive map of possible unrecorded
      routes.
    . Any volunteer can join the project and contribute directly with giving any information
      about "lost" or unrecorded routes.
    . We welcome anyone, including walkers, riders, historians and cyclists to help.

Please click on the link to the project for your County or Local Highways Authority.

If your County or Local Highways Authority is not listed, please contact access@bhs.org.uk
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It is planned to establish a Project 2026 for every county in England and Wales.
The county projects will be established according to demand.
If your county is not listed please email access@bhs.org.uk expressing your interest and to find out more.

If your county is listed please click on the link to go to the project.

If you are new to Project 2026, try adding paths and editing research records on the Demo maps to see how it works. Scroll down to Demonstration Projects.

 Eastern Region:
  Bedfordshire      422 paths    (71 submitted)
  Cambridgeshire      818 paths    (157 submitted)
  Essex      67 paths    (5 submitted)
  Hertfordshire      545 paths    (246 submitted)
  Norfolk      824 paths    (56 submitted)
  Suffolk      1235 paths    (83 submitted)
 East Midlands:
  Derbyshire      396 paths    (212 submitted)
  Leicestershire      336 paths    (152 submitted)
  Lincolnshire      520 paths    (153 submitted)
  Northamptonshire      389 paths    (90 submitted)
  Nottinghamshire      119 paths    (44 submitted)
  Rutland      54 paths    (3 submitted)
 Greater London:
  Barnet      3 paths    (0 submitted)
  Bromley      65 paths    (13 submitted)
  Hillingdon      4 paths    (0 submitted)
  KingstonUponThames      1 paths    (1 submitted)
 North East Region:
  Barnsley      49 paths    (12 submitted)
  Bradford      113 paths    (11 submitted)
  Calderdale      396 paths    (41 submitted)
  Doncaster      16 paths    (2 submitted)
  Durham      691 paths    (386 submitted)
  EastRiding      84 paths    (66 submitted)
  Hartlepool      10 paths    (1 submitted)
  Kirklees      181 paths    (135 submitted)
  Leeds      26 paths    (5 submitted)
  Middlesbrough      1 paths    (0 submitted)
  NorthYorkshire      1852 paths    (236 submitted)
  Northumberland      388 paths    (90 submitted)
  RedcarCleveland      49 paths    (0 submitted)
  Rotherham      5 paths    (0 submitted)
  Sheffield      24 paths    (7 submitted)
  Stockton      11 paths    (0 submitted)
  Wakefield      11 paths    (4 submitted)
 North West Region:
  CheshireEast      152 paths    (16 submitted)
  CheshireWest      31 paths    (4 submitted)
  Cumbria      779 paths    (135 submitted)
  GreaterManchester      118 paths    (35 submitted)
  Lancashire      534 paths    (123 submitted)
  Merseyside      102 paths    (25 submitted)
  Rochdale      1 paths    (0 submitted)
  Stockport      51 paths    (1 submitted)
  Tameside      47 paths    (10 submitted)
  Warrington      19 paths    (6 submitted)
 South East Region
  Berkshire      35 paths    (28 submitted)
  Buckinghamshire      108 paths    (20 submitted)
  Hampshire      569 paths    (335 submitted)
  IoW      2 paths    (1 submitted)
  Kent      399 paths    (90 submitted)
  MiltonKeynes      35 paths    (14 submitted)
  Oxfordshire      88 paths    (17 submitted)
  Surrey      158 paths    (41 submitted)
  Sussex      1068 paths    (182 submitted)
 South West Region:
  BathNES      5 paths    (1 submitted)
  Bristol      0 paths    (0 submitted)
  Cornwall      2605 paths    (385 submitted)
  Devon      216 paths    (3 submitted)
  Dorset      336 paths    (221 submitted)
  Gloucestershire      195 paths    (17 submitted)
  NorthSomerset      6 paths    (6 submitted)
  Somerset      444 paths    (346 submitted)
  SouthGloucestershire      4 paths    (0 submitted)
  Wiltshire      700 paths    (211 submitted)
 West Midlands:
  Herefordshire      387 paths    (233 submitted)
  Shropshire      216 paths    (92 submitted)
  Staffordshire      479 paths    (150 submitted)
  Warwickshire      108 paths    (6 submitted)
  Worcestershire      152 paths    (18 submitted)
 Wales:
  Anglesey      1 paths    (0 submitted)
  BlaenauGwent      0 paths    (0 submitted)
  Bridgend      9 paths    (0 submitted)
  Caerphilly      0 paths    (0 submitted)
  Carmarthenshire      420 paths    (0 submitted)
  Ceredigion      10 paths    (0 submitted)
  Conwy      6 paths    (0 submitted)
  Denbighshire      9 paths    (0 submitted)
  Flintshire      53 paths    (0 submitted)
  Gwynedd      7 paths    (1 submitted)
  Monmouthshire      14 paths    (0 submitted)
  Newport      0 paths    (0 submitted)
  Pembrokeshire      13 paths    (0 submitted)
  Powys      75 paths    (0 submitted)
  Rhondda      2 paths    (0 submitted)
  Torfaen      2 paths    (0 submitted)
  ValeofGlamorgan      1 paths    (0 submitted)

Demonstration Projects:

You may practise uploading routes and editing research records on these project maps
All information on these sites will ultimately be discarded.

Eastern Region:   DemoE
East Midlands:   DemoEM
Greater London:
North East Region:   DemoNE
North West Region:   DemoNW
South East Region   DemoSE
South West Region:   Demo   DemoSW
West Midlands:   DemoWM
Wales:   DemoWales