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Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Answer

Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what estimate he has made for each relevant local authority in England of the number and length of bridleways (a) recorded on the definitive map, (b) under consideration for registration on the definitive map and (c) eligible for consideration for registration. [25324] Angela Eagle: Information is available only on the length of bridleways, as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Highway authority Bridleways (km) Avon 200 Bedfordshire 1,400 Berkshire 260 Bolton 2 Buckinghamshire 649 Calderdale -- Cambridgeshire 430 Cheshire 124 Cleveland 200 Cornwall 522 Cumbria 1,878 Derbyshire 494 Devon 570 Dorset 1,600 Durham 573 East Sussex 678 Enfield -- Essex 680 Gloucestershire 360 Hampshire 850 Herefordshire 358 Worcestershire 648 Harrow -- Hertfordshire 576 Humberside 453 Isle of Wight 266 Kent 694 Kingston on Thames -- Kirklees -- Lancashire 388 Leeds 148 Leicestershire 584 Lincolnshire 770 Norfolk 443 Northamptonshire 600 Northumberland 1,295 North Yorkshire 1,609 Nottingham 799 Oxfordshire 970 Shropshire 795 Solihull 7 Somerset 927 Staffordshire 355 Suffolk 553 Surrey 1,045 Tameside 6 Warwickshire 460 Waltham Forest -- West Sussex 1,006 Wiltshire 1,540 Wirral MBC 30 Total 28,795 (17,882 miles) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Countryside Commission data from 1991 and 1996 surveys; data for Cambridgeshire and Dorset are for 1998.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

25324; 305 c319-20W

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Maps Public footpaths Bridleways

Contains statistics

Yes