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Dataset containing the public rights of way of Worcestershire
On this web page, Robert Whittaker made an FOI request for the public rights of way data of the council of Worcestershire. In its reply, the Council says "the working copy of the Public Rights of Way Definitive Map is freely available on our INSPIRE web service http://gis.worcestershire.gov.uk/arcgis/services/INSPIRE_WMS/MapServer/WFSServer". The "capabilities file" for the WFSServer is on this web page. That file indicates that the WFSServer provides the data in many formats. For example, it can be obtained as a ESRI shape file. In Aug 2024, Feb 2024, Apr 2025 and Apr 2026, I found that it took about 4 minutes before it returned the ESRI shape file. And in Apr 2026, I found that after waiting this time it said "Bad Request". I tried downloading as a KMZ file. It was fast but the lat-lons were bad. So in the end I downloaded the data as a GML2 file using this URL.
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 indicates that the data is made available by the council of Worcestershire under the terms of Open Government Licence v3.0. So it's possible for you to use this data provided you give the attribution that the data has been provided by the council of Worcestershire.
This web site also provides data about the rights of way of Worcestershire in KML format, in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.