I would recommend that you telephone the Rural Payments Agency of Defra and tell them you have a CPH number and want to let them know you will be racing across the Channel. I would be surprised if they give you a new number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the number to ring 03000 200 301 and select Rural Payments Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NEW INFORMATION<\/mark> 19\/03\/2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n A CPH (County Parish Holding) number with the final four digits beginning with a 9 (e.g. 12\/345\/9xxx) are valid for keeping under 50 birds. Racing pigeons however it is only valid for racing within GB. It is not valid for racing to the EU or Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A CPH with the final four digits beginning with an 8 (e.g. 12\/345\/8xx) is valid for racing pigeons across the channel from the EU and Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I would recommend that you telephone the Rural Payments Agency of Defra and tell them you have a CPH number and want to let them know you will be racing across the Channel. I would be surprised if they give you a new number. This is the number to ring 03000 200 301 and select … Continue reading “I have been racing North Road. Do I need a new CPH number to race across the Channel?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pigeon.vet\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}