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Open access

There are open access rights on a significant proportion of the moorland in the National Park and also on some woodland.  This gives people a right of access on foot for open air recreation on land mapped as access land.  Most enclosed fields and farm yard areas will not have open access rights - in these areas, please keep to public paths. 

Click here for a general overview of the open access rights created by the CRoW Act (Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000). For full details please visit the Natural England website.