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KML files containing the public rights of way of Wrexham
The council of Wrexham have provided me with three sets of MapInfo files that contains the details of their public rights of way. There is a separate set of MapInfo files for Footpaths, Bridleways and BOATs. Note: Wrexham does not have any Restricted Byways. These files are available in this zip file. I received these files on 3rd October 2018. The Council 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.
The files were made available by the council of Wrexham under terms equivalent to the Ordnance Survey OpenData Licence. When I e-mailed the Ordnance Survey about the councils that had, during the last few years, successfully obtained an exemption from the Public Sector Mapping Agreement and released their data under terms equivalent to the Ordnance Survey OpenData Licence, they replied All data exempted by Ordnance Survey is now covered by the Open Government Licence (OGL), which superseded its own OS OpenData licence in April 2015. So it's possible for you to use this data provided you say that it is public sector information released by the council of Wrexham under the Open Government Licence.
I have transformed the three MapInfo files into three KML files: footpaths, bridleways and BOATs.
I have combined the data in these three KML files and converted this data 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 (Wrexham), 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 Wrexham.
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 Wrexham.
This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of Wrexham in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.