Natural England provides a geospatial layer showing land mapped as access land under the Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act 2000. The layer combines Open Country and Registered Common Land, with certain categories of excepted land removed. It is derived from Ordnance Survey data and was last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Map public access rights based on the combined Open Country and Registered Common Land layer.
- Analyze land availability for recreation based on the CRoW Act 2000 designation.
- Identify areas of excepted land removed from the general access layer for planning purposes.
Strengths
- Data is provided by Natural England, a statutory UK government body.
- The layer combines two legally defined categories of land (Open Country and Registered Common Land).
- Contains Ordnance Survey data, a highly authoritative source for UK geography.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the UK context.
Provenance
- Source
- Natural England and Ordnance Survey.
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-29.
- Geography
- United Kingdom.