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2025-09-17-0917
KML files containing the public rights of way of Reading
The council of Reading have provided me with a gpkg file that has the details of their public rights of way. The gpkg file seems to have been created on 30th January 2025.
In October 2025, BC reported to me that the council's data has public rights of way that are outside Reading. On investigating, I found that there were 39 public rights of way that are outside Reading. In the council's data, these public rights of way have a PAR_NAME that is not READING. Here is a list of PAR_NAMEs that are used together with the number of paths that have that PAR_NAME: BURGHFIELD 10, EARLEY 5, SHINFIELD 13, THEALE 4 and TILEHURST 7. This screenshot shows GoogleEarth with the boundary of Reading (in red) and the paths (in yellow) that have a PAR_NAME that is not READING. My thanks to the Ordnance Survey as the boundary for Reading has been produced using their Boundary-Line product.
The Council also provides information about public rights of way in some maps that are on this web page. It may be that their maps use 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 Reading have informed me that the gpkg file 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 Reading.
I have transformed the gpkg file into a KML file.
As mentioned above, this KML file has some paths that are outside Reading. I have extracted from this KML file those paths that are inside Reading and converted it 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 (Reading), 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 Reading.
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 Reading.
This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of Reading in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.