Identification

Title

Forestry England Recreation Routes

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

The usage, name and grade of the series of recreation segments that link together to form linear recreation features, for example, mountain bike trails or walking trails. Primary Route Types... Walking - Must be promoted as an FE route, and have management activity and investment (e.g. Nature trail, heritage trail, education trail, forest walk, trim trail, all ability access trail). Cycling - Must be promoted as an FE route, and have management activity and investment (Mountain bike route, road bike, downhill, cross-country, family, rough riders). Equestrian - Must be promoted as an FE route, and have management activity and investment (Carriage route, standard). Forest Drive - Must be promoted as an FE route, and have management activity and investment (e.g. Toll, Toll free). Running - Must be promoted as an FE route, and have management activity and investment. Huskies - Must be promoted as an FE route, and have management activity and investment. Emergency Services - Must be an agreed access route for emergency services (Fire, ambulance, mountain rescue). Rally - Must be an approved rally route. Other Route Types are further split into Route Subtype... Nature Trail Sculpture Trail Heritage Trail Sensory Trail Education Trail Play Trail Downhill Cross Country Family Carriage Route Toll Toll Free Fire Ambulance Mountain Rescue Forest Walk Trim Trail All ability Access Trail Mountain Bike Road Bike Standard Cross Country Ski Segway Other Whare appropriate routes are graded... Easy Moderate Difficult Green - Easy Blue - Moderate Red - Difficult Black - Severe Orange - Bike Park Forest road or similar Attribution statement: © Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/

protocol: http

name: Forestry England Recreation Routes

description: The usage, name and grade of the series of recreation segments that link together to form linear recreation features, for example, mountain bike trails or walking trails.

Unique resource identifier

code

a1fdf1f9-c208-4b1d-8c64-2ab00476df18

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Asset

England

environment

Keyword set

keyword value

forest management

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

inventory

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

recreation

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2016-03-31

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2016-03-31

date type

revision

effective date

2025-01-22

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

The FC's Forester Recreation extension was rolled out to Forest Districts (FDs) in 2010. Since then FDs have been using this to record new recreation features, and those previously stored locally, to a common standard across GB.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence v3.0. (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

web address

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

description: Forestry Commission England Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-02-07

Metadata language