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2025-09-17-0917
Dataset containing the public rights of way of Isle of Wight
The council of the Isle of Wight have provided me with a zip file that has several ESRI shape files that has the details of their paths. As well as having ESRI shape files for public rights of way, the zip file also has ESRI shape files for paths that are closed. The ESRI shape files seem to have been created on 30th July 2025.
Aside: thanks to David Groom for obtaining the first set of ESRI shape files from the Council back in 2017.
The council also provides an online map of their public rights of way. It can be accessed from this web page. Their website also provides PDFs showing their public rights of way.
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 council of Isle of Wight have informed me that the data is made available 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 Isle of Wight.
Please e-mail me if you see a web page where the authority of Isle of Wight allows you to download the ESRI shape files.
This web site also provides data about the rights of way of Isle of Wight in KML format, in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.