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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      427 paths    (72 submitted)
  Cambridgeshire      822 paths    (157 submitted)
  Essex      68 paths    (6 submitted)
  Hertfordshire      593 paths    (314 submitted)
  Norfolk      831 paths    (66 submitted)
  Suffolk      1239 paths    (95 submitted)
East Midlands:
  Derbyshire      406 paths    (223 submitted)
  Leicestershire      338 paths    (152 submitted)
  Lincolnshire      536 paths    (178 submitted)
  Northamptonshire      453 paths    (147 submitted)
  Nottinghamshire      124 paths    (44 submitted)
  Rutland      54 paths    (3 submitted)
Greater London:
  Barnet      3 paths    (0 submitted)
  Bromley      66 paths    (13 submitted)
  Hillingdon      4 paths    (0 submitted)
  KingstonUponThames      1 paths    (1 submitted)
North East Region:
  Barnsley      72 paths    (12 submitted)
  Bradford      123 paths    (12 submitted)
  Calderdale      441 paths    (105 submitted)
  Doncaster      40 paths    (18 submitted)
  Durham      0 paths    (395 submitted)
  EastRiding      91 paths    (68 submitted)
  Hartlepool      10 paths    (1 submitted)
  Kirklees      185 paths    (139 submitted)
  Leeds      26 paths    (5 submitted)
  Middlesbrough      1 paths    (0 submitted)
  NorthYorkshire      1873 paths    (259 submitted)
  Northumberland      402 paths    (92 submitted)
  RedcarCleveland      50 paths    (0 submitted)
  Rotherham      12 paths    (0 submitted)
  Sheffield      59 paths    (9 submitted)
  Stockton      11 paths    (0 submitted)
  Wakefield      11 paths    (4 submitted)
North West Region:
  CheshireEast      166 paths    (16 submitted)
  CheshireWest      67 paths    (4 submitted)
  Cumbria      801 paths    (140 submitted)
  GreaterManchester      122 paths    (36 submitted)
  Lancashire      552 paths    (125 submitted)
  Merseyside      122 paths    (25 submitted)
  Rochdale      1 paths    (0 submitted)
  Stockport      51 paths    (1 submitted)
  Tameside      48 paths    (10 submitted)
  Warrington      22 paths    (6 submitted)
South East Region
  Berkshire      41 paths    (32 submitted)
  Buckinghamshire      108 paths    (20 submitted)
  Hampshire      625 paths    (395 submitted)
  IoW      2 paths    (1 submitted)
  Kent      416 paths    (109 submitted)
  MiltonKeynes      52 paths    (14 submitted)
  Oxfordshire      92 paths    (20 submitted)
  Surrey      165 paths    (42 submitted)
  Sussex      1079 paths    (193 submitted)
South West Region:
  BathNES      5 paths    (1 submitted)
  Bristol      0 paths    (0 submitted)
  Cornwall      2633 paths    (398 submitted)
  Devon      216 paths    (3 submitted)
  Dorset      337 paths    (222 submitted)
  Gloucestershire      198 paths    (17 submitted)
  NorthSomerset      9 paths    (6 submitted)
  Somerset      458 paths    (361 submitted)
  SouthGloucestershire      4 paths    (0 submitted)
  Wiltshire      707 paths    (211 submitted)
West Midlands:
  Herefordshire      396 paths    (243 submitted)
  Shropshire      224 paths    (101 submitted)
  Staffordshire      486 paths    (158 submitted)
  Warwickshire      125 paths    (13 submitted)
  Worcestershire      157 paths    (19 submitted)
Wales:
  Anglesey      1 paths    (0 submitted)
  BlaenauGwent      0 paths    (0 submitted)
  Bridgend      9 paths    (0 submitted)
  Caerphilly      0 paths    (0 submitted)
  Carmarthenshire      421 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      14 paths    (0 submitted)
  Powys      144 paths    (8 submitted)
  Rhondda      9 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