Transcribing historic paths

Transcribing historic paths

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...
Fine Political Words need action

Fine Political Words need action

‘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...
Calls for Strategic Management Plan for Holyrood Park

Calls for Strategic Management Plan for Holyrood Park

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...
Historic Footpaths Project

Historic Footpaths Project

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...
ScotWays Signposting Survey.  The Results are in!

ScotWays Signposting Survey. The Results are in!

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...