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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    (71 submitted)
  Cambridgeshire      822 paths    (157 submitted)
  Essex      68 paths    (6 submitted)
  Hertfordshire      610 paths    (314 submitted)
  Norfolk      831 paths    (66 submitted)
  Suffolk      1239 paths    (95 submitted)
 East Midlands:
  Derbyshire      408 paths    (223 submitted)
  Leicestershire      338 paths    (152 submitted)
  Lincolnshire      567 paths    (233 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      74 paths    (14 submitted)
  Bradford      123 paths    (12 submitted)
  Calderdale      479 paths    (154 submitted)
  Doncaster      40 paths    (18 submitted)
  Durham      654 paths    (396 submitted)
  EastRiding      91 paths    (68 submitted)
  Hartlepool      10 paths    (1 submitted)
  Kirklees      185 paths    (140 submitted)
  Leeds      27 paths    (5 submitted)
  Middlesbrough      1 paths    (0 submitted)
  NorthYorkshire      1877 paths    (272 submitted)
  Northumberland      404 paths    (92 submitted)
  RedcarCleveland      50 paths    (0 submitted)
  Rotherham      20 paths    (8 submitted)
  Sheffield      59 paths    (9 submitted)
  Stockton      11 paths    (0 submitted)
  Wakefield      11 paths    (4 submitted)
 North West Region:
  CheshireEast      171 paths    (18 submitted)
  CheshireWest      75 paths    (6 submitted)
  Cumbria      805 paths    (141 submitted)
  GreaterManchester      138 paths    (41 submitted)
  Lancashire      552 paths    (125 submitted)
  Merseyside      127 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      626 paths    (395 submitted)
  IoW      2 paths    (1 submitted)
  Kent      427 paths    (117 submitted)
  MiltonKeynes      52 paths    (14 submitted)
  Oxfordshire      96 paths    (24 submitted)
  Surrey      171 paths    (42 submitted)
  Sussex      1082 paths    (200 submitted)
 South West Region:
  BathNES      5 paths    (1 submitted)
  Bristol      0 paths    (0 submitted)
  Cornwall      2645 paths    (401 submitted)
  Devon      218 paths    (3 submitted)
  Dorset      339 paths    (223 submitted)
  Gloucestershire      198 paths    (17 submitted)
  NorthSomerset      9 paths    (6 submitted)
  Somerset      462 paths    (366 submitted)
  SouthGloucestershire      4 paths    (0 submitted)
  Wiltshire      707 paths    (212 submitted)
 West Midlands:
  Herefordshire      399 paths    (244 submitted)
  Shropshire      227 paths    (102 submitted)
  Staffordshire      490 paths    (162 submitted)
  Warwickshire      124 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      427 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      154 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