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This booklet gives guidance and information about definitive maps - the legal record of public rights of way - and the ways in which both those maps and individual rights of way can be changed. It is written for everyone who may have an interest, whether they are a landowner or farmer, a member of a local council, a group representing users of public rights of way or simply an interested member of the public.
In particular it explains the tests that have to be satisfied - and the procedures that have to be gone through - before a way can be said to be a public right of way or before a right of way can be created, diverted or closed.The booklet has no formal legal status but aims to provide a simple and clear explanation.This booklet applies only to England.
This is the second edition of A guide to definitive maps and changes to public rights of way (NE 112), which supersedes the first edition published by the Countryside Agency in 2002 (CA 142). Natural England welcomes any suggestions you have for future editions.