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KML files containing the public rights of way of City of Brighton and Hove
The council of City of Brighton and Hove have provided me with a zip file that has the details of their public rights of way. The zip file has five ESRI shape files. The ESRI shape files seem to have been created on 29th July 2025. There are separate ESRI shape files for their footpaths, their bridleways, their restricted byways, their BOATS and their urban footpaths.
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.
The council of City of Brighton and Hove have informed me that ESRI shape files are 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 City of Brighton and Hove.
I have transformed the ESRI shape files into five KML files: KML file for footpaths, KML file for bridleways, KML file for restricted byways, KML file for BOATs and KML file for urban footpaths.
When producing the KML, I have used OSTN15 to transform OSGB36 to WGS64.
There are 494 urban footpaths. The ones I looked at are not marked as public rights of way on the OS map. I have decided not to include them on rowmap's map and derived data. So I have converted the data in just the first four KML files 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 (City of Brighton and Hove), 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 City of Brighton and Hove.
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 City of Brighton and Hove.
This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of City of Brighton and Hove in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.