Forestry England Recreation Routes
Summary
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
Categories
Use limitation statement
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Attribution statement
© Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Technical information
Update frequency
annually
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.
Spatial information
Coordinate reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700Geographic extent
- Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
- Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information
Language
English
Metadata identifier
18e8553d-8b88-4c52-9525-f360cb78548a
Published by
Forestry Commission
Contact publisher
mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.ukDataset reference dates
Creation date
31 March 2016
Revision date
22 January 2025
Publication date
N/A
Period
- From: 31 March 2016
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