| BOAT | Byway Open to All Traffic (BOAT) – a highway available to all users including by mechanically propelled vehicles, but mainly used by pedestrians, horse riders and cyclists. |
| CRB | Carriage road bridlepath – as CRF but also with public equestrian usage. |
| CRF | Carriage road footpath – A non-statutory term used during the compilation of the first definitive maps for some routes that were intended to be recorded as RUPPs - to describe a route that was considered to carry vehicles but in actual fact used mainly by the public as a footpath. |
| Definitive Map | A statutory document that records the position of all public rights of way within the county. The definitive map is considered conclusive evidence of the existence and status of a right of way in a court of law and any changes to it must go through due legal process. |
| DMMO | Definitive Map Modification Order – legal order which changes the definitive map and statement following the production of evidence to demonstrate it is in error or incomplete. Statutory duty. |
| Definitive Statement | The statutory document which accompanies the definitive map and sets out the extent of and limitations on rights of way recorded on the definitive map. |
| Green Lane | A descriptive term used to describe many un-sealed routes (with or without a stone surface). “Green lane” has no legal significance and it cannot be assumed that these routes carry vehicular or indeed any other public rights. |
| IPROW | Institute of Public Rights of Way and Access Management A professional body representing public rights of way officers and those with an interest in public rights of way. |
| PPO | Public Path Order- A legal order which changes the definitive map and statement following a request from the landowner or the local authority based on landowner and public interest. |
| Private Road | A route over which there are no highway rights. (Often used incorrectly on signs on access tracks or drives to property that also form part of a Public Footpath or Bridleway.) |
| Private Street | A highway that is not publicly maintainable. |
| Public footpath | Route that can be used by pedestrians. (Often confused with Footway which is a pavement) |
| Quiet Lanes | A non-statutory designation used to describe roads with little vehicular traffic. |
| Restricted Byway | A route that can be used by carriage drivers, horse riders, cyclists and pedestrians but not by mechanically propelled vehicles. |
| ROWIP | Rights of Way Improvement Plan – A statutory strategic public rights of way document produced in 2007 and due for review in 2011 |
| RUPPs | Roads Used as Public Paths. - A type of highway recorded on the original definitive map. The right of the public over RUPPs was unclear and remaining RUPPs were reclassified as restricted byways in 2006. |
| “Without prejudice to higher rights” | A commonly used phrase reflecting the legal position that the depiction of, for instance a footpath, on the definitive map, is not conclusive evidence that there are not currently unrecorded higher rights. (bridleway or byway) (see modification orders) |
