Sources and method

Updated 24 October 2026

Every answer about access on this site comes from official open data. Notes about what a walk is like come from named sources and are credited where they are used.

Open access land: Natural England

Natural England's CRoW Act 2000 Access Layer maps the land where the right to roam applies in England: open country (mountain, moor, heath and down), registered common land, and land dedicated for public access. Each page gives the version and date of the layer it used. The layer leaves out land next to the England Coast Path, which Natural England maps separately (below). We measure how much of each common the layer covers from the two maps' shapes.

Registered common land: Natural England

Natural England's map of conclusive registered common land under section 4 of the CRoW Act 2000 gives each common's name, register unit number and registration authority. Sizes on this site are measured from its shapes. It is a map of the registers, not the registers themselves: the legal register is held by each registration authority.

Coastal margin: Natural England

The King Charles III England Coast Path coastal margin is land next to the path where access rights apply, with exceptions such as saltmarsh, mudflat and other land Natural England has excluded. Dog rules there differ from other access land.

Section 15 land: Natural England

Natural England's map of section 15 land shows land where the public already had a right of access under another law, such as section 193 of the Law of Property Act 1925, the National Trust Acts, a scheme under the Commons Act 1899 or a local Act. The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 leaves this land out of "access land", so the right to roam's own rules (including the dog lead season from 1 March to 31 July and landowners' 28-day closures) do not apply there; the other law and any byelaws do. Pages on this land say which law gives access. Version used: section 15 map version 9, 29 November 2024.

Parishes: Office for National Statistics

Each common is placed in the parish that holds most of it, using the Office for National Statistics' parish boundaries (December 2025), drawn out to the low-water mark so foreshore commons are included. A common's register name can mention a different place from the parish it lies in.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. ONS Open Geography Portal

The rules on each page

Dog rules and what the right to roam covers follow GOV.UK's Use your right to roam and Natural England's open access land guidance.

Notes on the walk

Notes about views, the ground underfoot, parking and facilities come from the source named under each list, such as the National Trust's own pages, and from walkers' posts. They are pulled out as facts, rewritten plainly and credited with a link. They describe the walk only; whether you can walk there always comes from the data above.

How often it is checked

Each source is checked monthly. A page's "data changed" date moves only when what it says has changed; its "checked" date shows the last check.

Spotted something wrong?

Email hello@caniwalkhere.co.uk with the page and what you found. It will be checked against the source and corrected, and the page's dates will show the change.