This is land on which the right of access is not available at any time even if it appears on maps of access land. It is generally obvious on the ground and includes:
- Buildings and the land immediately attached to them (e.g. courtyards).
- Land within 20 metres of a house or a building containing livestock.
- Parks and gardens.
- Land under structures such as electricity substations, wind turbines or telephone masts (though this does not prevent use of access land around them).
- Quarries and other active mineral workings.
- Railways and tramways.
- Golf courses and race courses.
- Aerodromes.
- Land being developed in one of the ways above.
- Arable land ploughed for the growing of crops within the past year.
- Temporary livestock pens.
- Racehorse training gallops
- Land under Military Byelaws (e.g. Ministry of Defence training areas).
Where 'excepted land' is served by public rights of way (e.g. footpaths or bridleways) or other legal access rights or traditions, access by those means is still allowed.
Note: Existing access rights, access arrangements and public rights of way are not affected by these excepted land provisions.
