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Right to roam As the pandemic has highlighted our need to engage with the great outdoors, a £1million study is being launched to look into our countryside rights of way. Professor Glen O’Hara of Oxford Brookes University working with Dr Clare Hickman of Newcastle University will research how the 140,000-mile network of paths have been established and how they are maintained and used across England and Wales. Access to these routes has been brought into focus as there is a deadline of January 2026 to register all historic paths under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. The R...

Right to roam As the pandemic has highlighted our need to engage with the great outdoors, a £1million study is being launched to look into our countryside rights of way. Professor Glen O’Hara of Oxford Brookes University working with Dr Clare Hickman of Newcastle University will research how the 140,000-mile network of paths have been established and how they are maintained and used across England and Wales. Access to these routes has been brought into focus as there is a deadline of January 2026 to register all historic paths under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. The R...

A petition has been created to extend the 2026 deadline to record bridleways under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000

On Thursday (7 January), the Snowdonia National Park Authority in north Wales decided to close all its car parks to block visitors from breaking Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. People in Wales have been instructed to stay at home and unnecessary travel has been banned under alert level four restrictions, which have been in place since 20 December and were renewed today for three further weeks. Nevertheless, a “high volume of people” have been found ignoring the rules, according to the authority’s chair Wyn Ellis Jones. The national park has seen a rise in visitors to its beauty s...

Caving and CRoW The CRoW debate UPDATE ON 24 July 2014 Wild Places Publishing was asked to host an Opinion prepared by a QC which considered aspects of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (CRoW), which came into force in 2005, and its interpretation relating to caving. The document was placed online at the same time as the following Introduction with its links to background information and other resources. On 31 July another request was made, this time to host a An Alternative View discussing points raised in the QC's Opinion. It should be noted that nei...