by Richard Barron | 11 April 2023 | News
You can now download, explore and view records of over 120,000 footpaths traced from Ordnance Survey Six-Inch to the mile maps of Scotland (1888-1913) thanks to a crowdsourcing map transcription project, a collaborative project between Scotways and the National...
by Richard Barron | 24 February 2023 | News
‘it will be essential for the fine political words to be backed up by the provision, by the [Scottish] Executive, of adequate resources to enable local authorities in particular to fulfil their statutory duties.’ScotWays Annual Report 2003 It’s 20 years since the Land...
by Richard Barron | 11 May 2022 | News
In 2018 Historic Environment Scotland closed the Radical Road that runs around the base of Salisbury Crags in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh on safety grounds following a 50-tonne rockfall. The road is a popular route that was surfaced by ‘radical’ weavers from the west of...
by Richard Barron | 1 March 2022 | News
We are working with the National Library of Scotland on a collaborative historic footpath mapping project in 2022. The point locations of over 12,000 “F.P.” footpath abbreviations have already been identified on the OS 6-inch to the mile maps from around 1900 covering...
by admin | 8 December 2017 | News
At the end of October 2017, we launched a survey to find out what people thought about our signposting work. ScotWays has been signposting rights of way and other paths across Scotland since it started in 1845. Times have changed and today many different people and...