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KML files containing the public rights of way of Wigan
The council of Wigan provides a web page where you can click on "Rights of Way" and that will take you to this web page. Now click on "View Full Details". That will take you to this web page. This new web page has a "Layers" area with three links that are labelled "Infrastructure", "Bridleways" and "Public Rights of Way" (meaning Footpaths). Click on either "Bridleways" or "Public Rights of Way" and then click on "Download". The new version of the web page allows you to download their Bridleways/Footpaths data in CSV, KML, Shapefile and GeoJSON formats. If instead of clicking on one of the Layers, you click "View API Resources" you will be offered the URL for "OGC WFS". Clicking on this takes you to this web page. This is the Capabilities file for Wigan's WFSServer. Using the information in that file, you can download the data in various formats. I didn't get the Shapefile download to work. But I was able to download in GML32 format. I used this URL to downloads the Footpaths data and this URL to downloads the Bridleways data.
The Council also provides information about public rights of way on its "public rights of way map". You can see this map by clicking a link on this web page. 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 2024. 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 "Custom License" link on this web page say the data is made available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. So it's possible for you to use this data provided you give an attribution.
I have downloaded the data for both Footpaths and Bridleways as a GML32 file and have then transformed these two GML32 files into two KML files: KML file for footpaths, and a KML file for bridleways.
When producing the KML, I have used OSTN15 to transform OSGB36 to WGS64.
I have combined the data in these two KML files and converted this data 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 (Wigan), a unique number within the authority for the public right of way, the name or number of the parish/community, 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 Wigan.
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 Wigan.
This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of Wigan in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.