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 PG: OBJECTS: LISTS: Hertfordshire definitive map processes: DM3
Parishes
IDM3 City of St Albans, Boroughs of Hemel Hempstead and Watford, Urban Districts of Barnet, Berkhamsted, Bushey, Chorleywood, East Barnet, Harpenden, Rickmansworth and Tring, and Rural Districts of Berkhamsted (Aldbury, Little Gaddesden, Nettleden with Potten End, Northchurch, Tring Rural and Puttenham and Wigginton), Elstree (Elstree, Ridge, Shenley) Hatfield (Essendon, Hatfield, Northaw and North Mymms), St Albans (Colney Heath, Harpenden Rural, London Colney, Redbourn, Sandridge, St Stephen, Wheathampstead), and Watford (Abbots Langley, Aldenham, Sarratt, Watford Rural).
Draft Map
London Gazette entry for 20 Nov 1953 announces that the draft map for this area has been prepared.

NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE ACT, 1949
HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
Public Rights of Way
NOTICE is hereby given that the County Council of the Administrative County of Hertford, in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949, have prepared a draft map and statement showing the public paths and roads used as public paths within that part of the said County which is comprised in the undermentioned county districts.
A copy of the draft map and statement may be inspected at the office of the County Surveyor at County Hall, Hertford, during the usual office hours and copies of so much thereof as relates to each of the undermentioned county districts and parishes may also be inspected during the usual office hours at the places mentioned below.
Representations or objections with respect to the draft map and statement may be sent in writing to the Clerk of the County Council at County Hall, Hertford, within four months of the date of the publication of this notice. Any such representation or objection should state the grounds on which it is made.
List of parishes/districts and places where the map may be seen - see London Gazette notice for the details
Dated this twentieth day of November, 1953.
NEVILLE MOON, Clerk of the County Council.
County Hall, Hertford.

Provisional Map
London Gazette entry for 29 Sep 1967 announces that the provisional Map for this area has been prepared and that the owner, lessee or occupier of land on which a path is shown on the provisional map may within 28 days make an application to Quarter Sessions.

NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE ACT, 1949
HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
Public Rights of Way
Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the provisions of section 30 (1) of the above-mentioned Act the Hertfordshire County Council have now prepared the Provisional Map and Statement of alleged public paths and roads used as public paths within that part of the said County which is comprised of the under- mentioned County Districts. A copy of the Provisional Map and Statement may be inspected at the office of the County Surveyor at County Hall, Hertford, during usual office hours, and copies of so much thereof as relates to each of the undermentioned County Districts and Parishes may also be inspected during usual office hours at the places mentioned below or at any other reasonable hour by arrangement with the occupier.
List of parishes/districts and places where the map may be seen - see London Gazette notice for the details
At any time within 28 days from the date of this notice, the owner, lessee or occupier of any land shown on the Map to which this notice relates, being land on which the Map shows a public path or road used as a public path, may apply to Quarter Sessions for a declaration:

(a) that at the relevant date (20th June 1953), there was no public right of way over the land;
(b) that the rights conferred on the public at that date by the public right of way over the land were such rights as may be specified in the application, and not such rights as are indicated in the Provisional Map and Statement;
(c) that the position or width of that part of the land over which the public right of way subsisted at the said date was as specified in the application, and not as indicated in the Provisional Map and Statement; or
(d) that the public right of way over the land at the said date was not unconditional but was subject to limitations or conditions specified in the application, or, if the said right as indicated in the Provisional Statement as being subject to limitations or conditions, that the said right was subject to other limitations or conditions specified in the application either in addition to or in substitution for those indicated in the Provisional Statement.
A notice of application for a declaration should be addressed within the prescribed time to the Clerk of the Peace, County Hall, Hertford, specifying the land to which the application relates, the grounds upon which the application is made, and that the Hertfordshire County Council are the surveying authority. A copy of the notice and application should also be served upon every other person appearing to the applicant to be the owner, lessee or occupier of the said land or of any land specified in the application in regard to which the Court may make a direction, and also upon the Hertfordshire County Council, addressed to the Clerk of the County Council, County Hall, Hertford. (See Public Rights of Way (Applications to Quarter Sessions) Regulations, 1952.)
Dated this 29th day of September 1967.
Neville Moon, Clerk of the County Council.
County Hall,
Hertford.
Definitive Map
London Gazette entry for 15 Nov 1968 announces that the definitive map for this area has been prepared.

NATIONAL PARKS AND ACCESS TO THE COUNTRYSIDE ACT, 1949
Public Rights of Way
Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the provisions of section 32 (1) of the above-mentioned Act the Hertfordshire County Council have now prepared the Definitive Map and Statement of public paths and roads used as public paths within that part of the said county which is comprised of the undermentioned county districts.
A copy of the Definitive Map and Statement may be inspected at the office of the County Surveyor, at County Hall, Hertford, during office hours and copies of so much thereof as relates to each of the under- mentioned county districts and parishes may also: be inspected during usual office hours at the places mentioned below or at any other reasonable hour by arrangement with the occupier.
List of parishes/districts and places where the map may be seen - see London Gazette notice for the details
Notice is further given that in accordance with the provisions of Part III of the First Schedule to the Act, any person wishing to question the validity of the Definitive Map on the ground that,

(i) The map is not within the powers of the Act, or (ii) Any requirement of the Act or of any regulation made thereunder has not been complied with in relation to the preparation of the map or of the draft or provisional maps on which it is based;
may make application to the High Court. Any such application must be made within 6 weeks of the date of this notice.
Neville Moon, Clerk of the County Council.
County Hall,
Hertford.
15th November 1968

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