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KML files containing the public rights of way of Cornwall
The council of Cornwall provide a web page from where you can download their data about public rights of way in various formats including GML32, GEOJSON, KML, KMZ and CSV. For example, you can download the data as a KMZ file (but see the "Important Note" below). The Council also provides information about public rights of way on its online map. It may be that their map uses more up-to-date information.
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.
This web page says the data is made available by the council of Cornwall under the Open Government Licence. So it's possible for you to use this data provided you give an attribution.
Important Note: in the Council's KML/KMZ files, the coordinates of each point of each public right of way are coded using eastings,northings rather than longitude,latitude. I have used the phpcoord package (written by Jonathan Stott) to convert each eastings,northings pair in the Council's KML file to a longitude,latitude pair. This package is © 2005 Jonathan Stott and released with the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2. Here is a link to a version of Cornwall's KML file that uses longitude,latitude pairs.
I have converted this KML file into the basic KML format that is used by this web site for all authorities. For each public right of way, this basic KML format has the name of the authority (Cornwall), a unique number within the authority for the public right of way, the name or number of the parish/community/area, the name or number of the public right of way, the type of the public right of way (i.e., footpath, bridleway, ...) and any additional information about the public right of way that I've obtained from the data supplied by the authority. Here is a link to the converted KML file for Cornwall.
This KML file has been augmented with additional information. For each public right of way, the augmented format also includes its length (in miles), the longitude and latitude of its first point, the longitude and latitude of its last point, the eastings and northings of its first point and the eastings and northings of its last point. Here is a link to the augmented KML file for Cornwall.
This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of Cornwall in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.