Unrecorded bridleways

[Rodger]

Rights of Way: Restoring the Record
January 1 at 10:33pm ·
At midnight tonight (1 Jan 18) there are just 8 years left to apply for your old paths to be recorded. Unrecorded paths, subject to some minor exceptions, will be extinguished on 1 Jan 26 at the stroke of midnight. New Year's Day 2026 will be the last day such unrecorded paths can be used by right.

Help stop the extinguishment! Find out if the routes you walk ride or cycle are shown on your council's definitive map. If in doubt ask the council! For any unrecorded routes, make an application to have the route added to the map.

People seem generally unaware of this mass extinguishment of paths - so please SHARE this post to your friends!

 

[GeekOKent]

Is there a link to the actual order to execute this?

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

that's CROW 2000 section 56 for the cut off date and 53 & 55 for what's cut off e.g. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/37/section/56

 

[Rob Cowell]

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...ent_data/file/414670/definitive-map-guide.pdf

See page 6, prospective change of legislation. I think this is about registering paths established under prescriptive access; 20 years continued use, without force, without secrecy, without permission.

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

NERCA 2006 has some bearing on this as well - it gave us restricted byways and made it harder to prove MPV rights - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/16/part/6