Short how-to walkthroughs of Holloway's most popular features are on our YouTube channel.

Search by name or area in the top bar, or just browse the map. The difficulty and route type chips in the sidebar narrow both the map and the list. "Graded only" hides lanes nobody has checked yet, "Include estimated grades" (only matters with Graded only on) also counts lanes with a tag-based estimated grade rather than just human-graded ones, "Hide closed / seasonal" hides anything currently closed, permanently closed, or inside an active seasonal restriction right now.

Free, no account needed: the map, search and filters, a lane's name, type, legal status, difficulty and hazards, closure notes and a Legal Status Search, your ridden log, and every contribution link (suggest a grade, suggest a missing lane, report an issue). Holloway Premium, £20/year: surface type, exact coordinates, live weather, street view where available, route planning, live in-app navigation, GPX export and "Navigate to start". £1 from every membership goes straight toward keeping lanes open, maintained, and supporting the people who do that work. Subscribe any time from Menu > Account, cancel any time from the same place, no minimum term.

Holloway isn't a replacement for the Trail Riders Fellowship, and it's not trying to be. They do the real work of defending rights of way and keeping lanes legally open in the first place. If you can only afford one membership, make it theirs, it matters more than ours.

Holloway's basic features stay free either way. If you can also stretch to Holloway Premium, it adds things outside what the TRF does, route planning, GPX export and more for the day itself, and part of every membership still goes toward lane upkeep and the people and groups doing that work, TRF included.

For practical things you can do yourself, lane etiquette and letter templates for councils and MPs, see Keep lanes open.

Set "Show me: up to..." to your comfort level. Tick "Heavier or loaded adventure bike" or "New to green laning" if either applies, each drops the ceiling by one grade, and both stack. You can still fine-tune with the chips below afterwards.

Tap a lane on the map or in the list for its full detail: length, surface, hazards, current weather, a street view of the start where Google has coverage, legal status and any closure. On the map, solid coloured lines are legal to ride and colour shows difficulty, dashed grey lines are not legal for motor vehicles and shown for reference only.

Part of Holloway Premium. Tap "Plan route", then tap legal lanes on the map or in the list to add them in order. Reorder or remove them in the route panel, see the total distance, then download a combined GPX or get directions to the first lane in Google Maps. Restricted byways and other non-legal lanes can't be added. Two touching lanes (split into separate records at a boundary, say, but one continuous track on the ground) connect directly with no road link needed, and if they share the same name, tapping either one adds the whole thing in one go. The ⇔ button on any lane in the route forces it the other way if you'd rather ride it in reverse. "+ Add a road point" in the route panel lets you drop your own point on the map to bend a road link via a specific road rather than accept whatever the automatic route picks, drag it afterwards to nudge it onto the exact road you mean, useful for filming a ride-out on roads you already know.

Part of Holloway Premium. "Start navigation" on a planned route takes over the screen with a moving map that follows and tilts and rotates with you as you ride, no separate app or page involved, it's the same map underneath. Shows distance remaining, your speed, a rough ETA, which lane is coming up next, and a warning if you stray off the route. The road links between lanes do show real turn-by-turn ("Turn left onto Water Lane in 350m"), those are ordinary roads with junction data behind them, but green lanes themselves have no such data, so on a lane it's just "next lane in X", not a turn-by-turn instruction, this is closer to a dedicated off-road GPS unit than a normal sat-nav, a big, glanceable readout built to work mounted on the bars. Your phone's screen is kept awake for as long as you're navigating. A single lane's own detail card has "Navigate to start" instead, a quick Google Maps handoff to whichever end of the lane you pick.

Single-lane and combined-route GPX are part of Holloway Premium. Download a single lane's GPX from its detail card. Menu > "Export shown lanes as GPX" exports everything currently on screen, filters and search narrow this down, so searching a county name and exporting gives you that county. Install Holloway (Menu, or your browser's own install prompt) to browse lane data offline, that part's free. The map's own visual tiles still need a connection the first time you look at a new area, only lane data (name, legal type, difficulty, hazards) is guaranteed offline everywhere once loaded.

Tap "Mark as ridden" on a lane's detail card. See everything you've ridden, with a running total distance, in Menu > "My ridden lanes".

Tap "Near me" to track your live position, this needs location permission and works best outdoors on a phone. A laptop with no GPS chip can still give a rough fix, just expect it to be less precise.

Tick "Show points of interest" in the sidebar filters to bring up historic sites, ruins, monuments and other landmarks near the map, not just lanes. Tap one for a short write-up, a photo and a "Navigate to this" button. Off by default, and rolling out region by region rather than everywhere at once, so don't read a quiet area as nothing being there, it may just not have been added yet.

Menu > "Suggest a missing lane" opens a small toolbar over the map. Drag with a mouse or your finger to trace roughly where it runs, Undo or Clear to fix a mistake, then "Done" opens a short form for the lane's name and why you think it's legal to ride, if you know either. A moderator reviews it, if approved it appears on the map as a member-added lane, shown in its own colour and clearly marked as unverified until someone checks it properly.

Menu > "Settings" switches every distance on screen between km and miles, GPX files always stay in km regardless. "Lock map to north" stops the map rotating if a two-finger pinch to zoom accidentally rotates it too, handy on a touchscreen. It also has a "Clear ridden history" button if you ever want to start that log over.

BOAT, Byway Open to All Traffic, legal to ride.

UCR, Unclassified County Road, legal to ride, but its legal status is less certain than a confirmed BOAT, being on the council's list of public roads doesn't by itself prove a right for motor vehicles. Check locally before relying on one.

ORPA, Other Route with Public Access, legal to ride.

Restricted byway, not legal for motor vehicles, shown for reference and route planning around, not on.

Member-added, submitted by a rider and approved by a moderator, but not independently verified against a definitive map. Usable for route planning like the others, always check it's legal to ride and check current conditions yourself first.

Paved singletrack, an ordinary paved public road that happens to be single-track with passing places, not an off-road byway. Legal for any road vehicle, no different from any other road, shown pre-graded rather than "not yet graded" since there's no off-road surface to assess. Off the map by default, turn on its own filter chip in Route type to see these.

Coverage is England and Wales only. Scotland has different access law and no BOAT or definitive-map system, off-tarmac riding there is likely trespassing, this app deliberately doesn't cover it.

Lanes tagged "not yet graded" are imported straight from OpenStreetMap with a placeholder difficulty and no hazard notes. Graded lanes have been checked and rated by hand, that grading is the real work this app adds on top of the raw map data.

"Closed" is a temporary Traffic Regulation Order on top of an otherwise legal lane, it can reopen. "Permanently closed" means the lane's legal status itself has been withdrawn, it's no longer a legal route regardless of what it used to be. Both are maintained by hand, there is no live TRO feed, always check current signage.

Lane data © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database Licence.

Use "Report this lane looks wrong" on any lane's detail card, or email hollowayapp@gmail.com directly. "Suggest a difficulty grade" on the same card is the place for grading feedback specifically, ridden it and think the grade's off, or it's marked "not yet graded"? That's the one to use.

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