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Thanks to our local correspondent Chris Smith, the ancient way between Bosham and the Itchenor ferry, west of Chichester in West Sussex, has been added to the official map of public rights of way, enabling cyclists to gain access to and from the ferry.
The claimed route. Photo: Open Spaces Society
For many years the ferry across Ch...
We are delighted that land in Hertfordshire has been registered as common, giving it protection, and the public rights of access there. The land failed to be registered as common land when the registers were first opened under the Commons Registration Act 1965 (the 1965 Act) for a three-year period.
Frithsden Beeches and the land abuttin...
Yesterday, 11 August 2026, was the 150th anniversary of the Commons Act 1876, the Act which spelt the death knell for the parliamentary inclosure of common land in England and Wales.
Our society, then the Commons Preservation Society, played a part in its enactment. Our president, Lord Eversley, with vice-presidents James Bryce MP, Charles Dilke MP, Henry Fawcett M...
We are delighted that its threat of legal action has caused Herefordshire Council to reopen obstructed and overgrown paths in Abbey Dore parish, in south Herefordshire.
Before and after: footpath 13. Photo: Open Spaces Society
Our local correspondent, Dave Howerski, has reported issues to the council, as highway authority, over the...
We have helped to save the attractive 463-metre footpath, south of Wimbish Green, six kilometres south-east of Saffron Walden, in Uttlesford District, Essex.
The path, known as Wimbish footpath 70, runs through the grounds of three residential properties. The owner of one of them, Midfield, applied to close the route under section 118 of the Highways Act 1980 on the...