Public Rights of Way Condition in Wales, 2013-2025

Records of Public Rights of Way (PROW) condition and length collected across Wales. The data originates from two Welsh Government monitoring programs: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) field survey from 2013-2016 and the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP) National Field Survey from 2021-2025. The ERAMMP survey is a rolling annual resurvey of a subset of 181 one-kilometer squares from the original 300-square GMEP sample.

Use Cases

• Assessing changes in footpath and bridleway condition over time based on resurvey data from 2013-2016 and 2021-2025.
• Modeling the relationship between land management schemes and public access infrastructure based on data linked to the Glastir program.
• Mapping the spatial distribution and condition of public rights of way across Wales based on the 1km square sampling design.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of environmental monitoring programs by comparing baseline (GMEP) and follow-up (ERAMMP) survey results.

Strengths

• Data spans two distinct time periods (2013-2016 and 2021-2025), enabling longitudinal analysis.
• Survey design is based on a stratified random sample of 300 one-kilometer squares across Wales.
• The ERAMMP program provides a direct resurvey of 181 squares from the original GMEP sample.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific monitoring programs and sampling locations in Wales.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Field surveys conducted as part of the GMEP (2013-2016) and ERAMMP National Field Survey (2021-2025) programs, managed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Time Range

2013-2016 and 2021-2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 09:34:24.537498; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Wales