Is this land registered common land or open-access land?
A driveway, fence or extension on registered common land needs Secretary of State consent, and commoners' rights survive a sale. Check before you buy or build — free teaser, £9.99 full report with PDF.
Free: touches common land? · right of way within 50 m? — Try WD3 1QB (Batchworth Heath), TN7 4EX (Ashdown Forest), OX2 6TN (Port Meadow)
Natural England's conclusive CRoW s.4 map: every registered common in England with its CL number and registration authority.
Open country, commons and dedicated land where the public has a right to roam on foot.
Footpaths, bridleways, restricted byways and BOATs mapped in OpenStreetMap from council definitive maps.
Common land by county
Live counts from Natural England's register for the 30 authorities with the most registered commons.
- North Yorkshire
- Surrey
- Cumbria
- Cornwall
- Norfolk
- Hertfordshire
- Gloucestershire
- West Sussex
- Essex
- Buckinghamshire
- Suffolk
- Hampshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- Wiltshire
- Herefordshire
- Kent
- South Gloucestershire
- Worcestershire
- Staffordshire
- Lancashire
- County Durham
- Oxfordshire
- Somerset
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Cambridgeshire
- Derbyshire
- Northumberland
- Berkshire
- Nottinghamshire