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2025-09-17-0917
Dataset containing the public rights of way of Cumbria
In 2023, Cumbria County Council was abolished and two new unitary authorities created in its place:
they are Cumberland Council and Westmorland and Furness Council.
This web site currently has the data for the old Cumbria County Council and the data for
Westmorland and Furness Council.
I've been unable to get data from Cumberland Council.
This web site also has the data for the Lake District National Park.
Most of the public rights of way that are in the Lake District only appear in the data for the LDNP.
However, there are a few Lake District public rights of way that appear in both the LDNP data and the WandF data.
There are also a few other Lake District public rights of way that appear in both the LDNP data and the old Cumbria data.
The WandF public rights of way appear in both the WandF data and the old Cumbria data.
In 2017, SN emailed me an ESRI shape file that SN has obtained from the council of Cumbria.
Cumberland Council and Westmorland and Furness Council both provide information about public rights of way on an online map. It may be that that 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 Cumbria have informed me that the ESRI shape file is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence. 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 Cumbria.
Please e-mail me if you see a web page where the authority of Cumbria allows you to download the ESRI shape file.
This web site also provides data about the rights of way of Cumbria in KML format, in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.