ROW guidance for landowners
Rights of Way guidance for landowners and land managers
Ploughing and cropping
Download the guidance notice on ploughing and cropping (PDF, 187KB, 2 pages).
Trees and hedges
The ongoing maintenance of hedges and trees that run alongside public rights of way (footpaths, bridleways and byways, which are legally “highways”) are the responsibility of the owner of the land they are planted on. In limited places that land may belong to the Isle of Wight Council but more commonly the land will be in private ownership.
Download more about trees, hedges and rights of way (PDF, 961KB).
Fencing including electric and barbed wire
Download
the guidance note about different types of fencing across or adjacent to public rights of way (PDF, 540KB)
Stiles and Gates
Safe gates and stiles across public rights of way
Download the Gates and Stiles landowner guidance (PDF, 1.08 MB)
This guidance sets out what a landowner needs to do to make sure structures across a public right of way are safe, easy for the public to use and lawful.