The short answer is - hunting, shooting and fishing.
It may be that you are buying land and have in mind its use for rural pursuits. Alternatively you may wish to ensure that no one else has the right to enter the land for these purposes. Either way it is important to determine the legal position in relation to the sporting rights when buying land in rural areas.
The starting point is that sporting rights exist as part of the land and are exercisable as such unless they are separated from it. They can be separated from it in a number of ways:
Where sporting rights are separated from the land, generally they can be sold or passed on as an entity in themselves, separate from the land but giving the right to use the land for a specific sporting purpose.
Fishing rights can change hands for many hundreds of thousands of pounds. Shooting rights can be leased out over suitable tracts of land for worthwhile rental figures. In certain circumstances, the existence of hunting rights over land can have a downward impact upon its value. All in all, sporting rights do require careful consideration when dealing with rural property.