Glossary of Terms
These are common Abbreviations used when discussing Rights of Way Issues

• LOG=Landrover Owners Group
• GLASS= Green Lane ASSociation, 01656 767264.
• TRF Trail Riders Fellowship
• AWDC = All Wheel Drive Club
• ARC = Association of Rover Clubs
• LARA = Land Access and Recreation Association,
• BBT = Byway and Bridleway Trust
• CC = County Council
• CoCo = Countryside commission
• CCW = Countryside Council for Wales
• DETR = Department of Transport and Regions, (was DoE)
• CLA = Country Landowners Association
• GLEAM = Green lane enviromental action movement, (an anti-access pressure group)
• TRO = Traffic Regulation Order,
• UUCR = Unsealed Unclassified County Road (NB not just unsurfaced or unmetalled)
• TUCR = Tarred Unclassified County Road
• Byway = A minor Public Road, BOAT, UCR, RUPP/v
• BOAT = Byway Open to All Traffic
• RUPP/v = RUPP with Vehicular rights. (RUPPs may have VR depending on evidence)
• BY = DM abbreviation for BOAT
• FP = FootPath
• BW = Bridleway
• HA = Highways Authority
• PROW = Public Rights of Way
• PbCR = Public Carriage Road
• PvCR = Private Carriage Road
• IA = parliamentary Inclosure Award to enclose land,
• FA = Finance Act 1910
• VR = Voluntary Restraint agreed by LARA (or Vehicular Rights, depending on context).
• RT = Ratione Tenuria,(?) maintained by reason of tenure
• Private Road = A road which is privately maintained. ie prescription, tenure, enclosure, dedication. May not have PVR. (Due to ambiguity, please use the term 'Private use', or 'Private maintenance')
• PVR = Public Vehicular Rights
• White = an uncoloured (un-surfaced) on OS Landranger, often but not necessarily with PVR
• BB = RA Blue Book, now out of print.
• RA = Ramblers Association
• MBB = Making the Best of Byways, a DETR publication for HA's and others showing neglect is not the way to look after Byways.
• 116 = Highways Act 1980 s116 road closure order.
• Tippex = a quasi unofficial procedure used in the past to save many HA's the trouble of a 116