Natural England will increase the opportunities available for people to make the natural environment an enriching part of their daily lives. Our objective is to improve places and increase the number and diversity of people enjoying the environment.
To achieve this, we will work with farmers, land managers and public authorities to maintain and develop access and to assist them to successfully manage and benefit from increased public access to the natural environment.
Under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CROW) open access land has been mapped, thus helping landowners manage the new public rights. The new rights came into effect across all of England on 31 October 2005.
Coastal access - improving access to the English coast.
England Access Forum - brings together representatives of Local Access Forums and Natural England.
- Open Access - allows people to walk freely across registered common land, mapped areas of mountain, moor, heath and down (Countryside Agency)
- Discovering Lost Ways - Information on the project which researched rights of way not shown on the Definitive Map - see also (Countryside Agency)
- Unrecorded Rights of Way - working towards improving recording rights of way missing from the Definitive Map (Countryside Agency)
- Local Access Forums - advise on the improvement of public access to land for the purposes of open-air recreation and enjoyment (Countryside Agency)
- Permissive Access - access given by permission of the landowner rather than as a public right of way (Countryside Agency)
- Public Rights of Way - improving the network of public rights of way (Countryside Agency)
- Recording Other Access Rights - recording land where there are rights of access on foot or higher rights, such as horse riding, set up under enactments preceeding the CROW act (Countryside Agency)
- Nature on the Map (opens in new window)
(Natural England)