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Rights of Way
Accommodation Road: A route for the private use of persons with an interest in land to which it leads. Such routes may also carry public rights. (Same as 'occupation road'.) Adopted Road: When a builder makes an estate road it will normally be dedicated to the public, sooner or later, but it will not be maintainable at public expense until it is formally adopted by the Highway Authority (and added to the List of Streets). BOAT: Byway open to all traffic, the legal designation of vehicular routes shown as such on the Definitive Map. Bridle-path, Bridle Road: Alternative terms for Bridleway. Bridleway: A Route legally available for walkers, horse riders, and bicycles. A definitive bridleway may also have vehicular rights. Byway open to all traffic: Legal term for a recreational route with vehicular rights, which is marked on the Definitive map. Carriageway: A route for vehicles of all descriptions. Public carriageway is the highest of the three statuses of Rights of Way. Horse-riders and walkers may also use (almost) all carriageways. Drove Road: A route used before the railway era for long distance transport of livestock, usually cattle, which all had to walk to market, sometimes from as far away as Scotland & Wales. Also called Drift and Driving Road. Many green roads were drove roads. Higher rights: A Bridleway has higher rights than a footpath, and a carriageway higher than a bridleway. Unrecorded rights may exist on any Definitive route, so footpaths and bridleways may have vehicular status. It all depends on the evidence. Highway: A route along which the public have a right to pass and repass. Highways are all public, and may be footpaths, bridleways, or carriageways. Technically the highway is the route, the right of way is the right to use it. Occupation Road: One with private rights for those with an interest in adjacent land, the same as accommodation road. It may also have public rights. Permissive route: One where the owner has indicated that for the time being he does not mind use by a given class of traveller. Permission may be withdrawn at any time. Public Path: A Right of Way which is a footpath or bridleway, with no higher rights. The term is often misapplied to `definitive' paths, which may carry higher (but hidden) rights. Right of Way: A right for any member of the public to travel over the land of another, without needing permission. There are three categories, Footpath, Bridleway, and Carriageway. Use can only legally be for a genuine journey from one place to another. Road used as a public path (=RUPP): A classification used on Definitive maps, meaning a route which is not a footpath or bridleway, but not with conclusive vehicular rights for the public. RuPPs will all be Reclassified (eventually). RoW: Right of way. RT Road: One maintainable by the landowner; ratione tenurae means 'by reason of tenure'. All RT roads are public carriageways, sometimes marked on the List of Streets. RUPP: Road used as a public path. Unclassified County Road: A road recorded (on the List of Streets) by the Highway Authority as `maintainable at public expense', and normally having vehicular rights. Such roads are sometimes not tarred, and then are not always marked on Definitive or OS maps. Properly speaking the term is obsolete, and the term Unclassified Road should be preferred. Classified roads are the familiar A and B roads. |
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