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A definitive map is a record of public rights of way in England and Wales. In law it is the definitive record of where a right of way is located. The highway authority (normally the county council, or unitary authority in areas with a one-tier system) has a statutory duty to maintain a definitive map.
IPROW – The Institute of Public Rights of Way and Access Management; rowmaps.com – maps showing rights of way, downloads of ROW data; Byway Map – a map of byways in the UK, archived in 2012; Rights of Way: Restoring the Record – a 2020 book describing the process and evidence for recording historic rights of way
Right of way drawing of U.S. Route 25E for widening project, 1981 Right of way highway marker in Athens, Georgia Julington-Durbin Peninsula power line right of way. A right of way (also right-of-way) is a transportation corridor along which people, animals, vehicles, watercraft, or utility lines travel, or the legal status that gives them the right to do so.
Property rights advocates say that failure to record a right-of-way means that there was no intention to create a public right. Shared-access groups argue that lack of formal action by counties does not diminish the public’s easement/usufruct rights through private lands. They have engaged in threats, trespassing, and vandalism [9] to ...
In May 2010 the former transport minister, Hon. David Anderson MHK, accepted the conclusions of a public inquiry that all except five of the paths claimed at the inquiry as public rights of way have been dedicated as public rights of way and should be added to the definitive map. [24]
If the railway ran predominantly north and south, a 10-mile (16 km) township of one square mile sections was allotted on each side of the 400-foot (120 m) right-of-way. The land was granted in alternating sections (one square mile), with each odd numbered section going to the railroad company and each even numbered section kept by the government.
Byway open to all traffic in Somerset. In England & Wales, a byway open to all traffic (BOAT) is a highway over which the public have a right of way for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic but which is used by the public mainly for the purposes for which footpaths and bridleways are used (i.e. walking, cycling or horse riding (United Kingdom Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, section 15(9 ...
Building on the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 which required local authorities to draw up maps defining public rights of way. Ascertainment of public rights of way The duties of government bodies to identify, maintain and update records about Public Rights of Way and to keep maps showing rights of way under continuous ...