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Datasets containing details about rights of way
Rights of way data for the 116 authorities that are listed in the table below have been released with an open licence.
Please e-mail me
if you know of any other authority
that releases their data with an open licence.
My thanks to those that have already done this.
Here's a link to a map showing the areas where data has been released.
Many authorities originally released their data under terms equivalent to the
Ordnance Survey Opendata Licence.
In April 2015,
the
Ordnance Survey
adopted the
Open Government Licence.
Here's a link to more details about the change in OS licensing.
An authority's Definitive Map is the authoritative source of their rights of way. The details of the public rights of way network contained in an authority's data are for information only, and are an interpretation of the Definitive Map, not the Definitive Map itself, and should not be relied on for determining the position or alignment of any public right of way. For legal purposes, an authority's data does not replace their Definitive Map. And changes may have been made to the Definitive Map that are not included in their data. The authority's data contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Attempting to view this data with more detail than 1:10000 may produce an inaccurate rendering of the route of a public right of way.
In the table below, there is a link to a web page that provides the data file(s) that the authority has produced:
Aside: each of the above links takes you to the appropriate folder for that authority. The URL for the folder uses a two character code that identifies the authority. For example, "BL" is used in the URL for Barnsley. There are more details about these two character codes on this web page.
This web site also provides the information about rights of way in KML format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.