DID YOU KNOW...

• Somerset County Council’s Rights of Way Team look after one of the longest rights of way networks in the country. If all of Somerset’s rights of way were laid end to end, they would stretch from Taunton to America’s Big Apple - New York.
  
  
• The Rights of Way Team’s interactive website is one of the most up-to-date and innovative in the country. By logging on to www.somerset.gov.uk/rightsofway, surfers can look at the county’s entire rights of way network and report in any problems such as broken stiles, missing bridges and blocked paths.
  
  
• Walking, riding and cycling are three of the most popular recreational activities in the country. By making sure Somerset’s public paths are open and easy to use, the Rights of Way Team play a crucial role helping to make Somerset a healthier and safer place to live and work.

DISCOVER your potential by being part of Somerset' award-winning County Council

The County Council is one of the county’s major employers. Over 17,000 work in County Hall and in other local offices, schools and libraries across the Somerset.

Somerset County Council is regarded as one of the best County Councils in the country. In recognition of our commitment to build a Somerset that everyone can share and enjoy, we’ve won various awards including the national “Best Achieving Council of the Year” award.

EXPERIENCE what it's like working for Somerset's Rights of Way Team.

Somerset’s Rights of Way Team are able to offer you a varied and challenging work placement.

You will experience for real what it’s like to be a Rights of Way Officer. One day you could be out with our Rangers installing a new bridleway gate or helping to update our innovative new website. The next, you could be surveying the nationally acclaimed Coleridge Way, or helping to decipher a historical map to see if a public right of way exists over someone’s land.

EXPLORE Somerset's beautiful countryside.

By taking part in our Work Experience Scheme, you’ll be able to discover parts of Somerset you may never have been to before.

You could be walking along long sandy beaches or exploring West Somerset’s dramatic rocky coastline towards Exmoor. You could be surveying a path along the banks of the River Parrett meandering through the Somerset Levels or helping our Rangers to install a new stile along a path running over the Quantock Hills.