How to use Holloway

Holloway's map itself needs a free sign-in, just an email address, no password and no card. Everything else about the free tier is exactly as open as it's always been.

1. Open the map at rideholloway.com/map.
2. Enter your email address on the sign-in form.
3. Open the email we send and tap the link to confirm. If nothing arrives within a minute or two, check spam, or ask for a new one.
4. You're in. Nothing to remember, nothing to type again next time on the same device.

Every coloured line on the map is a real, mapped legal route, colour shows difficulty, easy through severe. Grey dashed lines are not legal for a motor vehicle, restricted byways and footpaths, shown for reference only.

• Search: type a place or lane name into the search box (on mobile, Menu > Search lanes) to narrow the map and the list together.
• Filters: the sidebar's Difficulty and Route type chips narrow it further. "Graded only" hides lanes nobody's actually assessed yet.
• Tap a lane, on the map or in the list, to open its detail card.

Before touching filters by hand, tell Holloway what you're riding. In the sidebar, set "Show me: up to..." to your comfort ceiling, then tick "Heavier or loaded adventure bike" or "New to green laning" if either applies. Each one drops the ceiling by a grade, and they stack, so a new rider on a loaded ADV bike sees a genuinely easier map straight away. Fine-tune with the difficulty chips afterwards if you want.

Every card shows the lane's length, hazards, and a plain-language legal status: "BOAT (legal to ride)", "UCR (county road)", "Restricted byway" (not legal), and so on. A "Not yet graded" tag means it's a raw import with a placeholder difficulty, not an actual assessment.

Holloway's own closure data is maintained by hand, not a live council feed, so it can never be complete. Two things to check on the day, not just once when you first found the lane:

• Any closure banner on the card itself, set by a moderator or a live report from another rider.
• The card's Legal Status Search button, a pre-filled Google search asking directly whether a current order exists for that specific lane, and where to check it yourself.

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

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

Tick "Show points of interest" in the sidebar filters to bring up historic sites, ruins and landmarks near the map, not just lanes. Tap one for a write-up, a photo and a "Navigate to this" button. It's rolling out region by region, so a quiet area may just not have been added yet.

1. Menu > "Suggest a missing lane".
2. Drag on the map, mouse or finger, to trace roughly where it runs. Undo or Clear to fix a mistake.
3. Tap Done, then say what you think it is and why you believe it's legal to ride, if you know.
4. A moderator reviews it. If approved, it appears as a member-added lane, its own colour, clearly marked unverified until someone checks it properly.

Ridden a lane and think its difficulty is wrong, or spotted something that needs fixing? "Suggest a difficulty grade" or "Report this lane looks wrong" on that lane's own detail card, both go straight to a moderator.

"Add a video link" on a lane's detail card lets you attach a YouTube link of that lane being ridden. Approved links show right on the card with a thumbnail.

Menu > "Install Holloway" (or your browser's own install prompt) adds it to your home screen like a real app, no app store needed.

Once you've opened the app online at least once, lane data (name, legal status, difficulty, hazards) is cached in full and works with zero signal anywhere in the country. Map tiles are different, they only cache for an area you've actually looked at while online, so genuinely new territory still needs a first connection to show the visual map.

Menu > Settings switches every on-screen distance between km and miles, GPX files always stay in km. "Lock map to north" stops an accidental two-finger rotate on a touchscreen from spinning the map.

Menu > Account shows your plan and a "Manage subscription" button, Stripe's own portal, cancel any time, no minimum term. "Delete account" there removes your profile, ridden log and home postcode straight away.