Ancient Woodland Inventory (Scotland)

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 21 July 2023
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• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

In response to a 1980 select committee which recommended that ancient woods should be recognised and treated as a separate category, the NCCs compiled the Inventories of Ancient, Long-established and Semi-natural woodlands. A more sophisticated classification was developed for woodlands in Scotland due to the nature of the available historical sources.

IMPORTANT For Scottish woods, the category Ancient comprises woods recorded as being of semi-natural origin on EITHER the 1750 Roy maps OR the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey maps of 1860. This is due a) to the likelihood of the latter having been omitted from the Roy maps and b) to render the Scottish classification compatible with that for England and Wales.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
NatureScot OpenData Hub	N/A	21 July 2023	Not available
Geopackage (EPSG:27700)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
GeoJSON (EPSG:4326)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
GML (EPSG:4258)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
ESRI File geodatabase (EPSG:27700)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
ESRI Shapefile (EPSG:27700)	ZIP	21 July 2023	Not available
habitatsandspecies:awi	N/A	21 July 2023	Not available
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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-07-20T14:00:43
• Access contraints: Available under an OS Open Data licence. You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright NatureScot Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (year)
• Harvest GUID: A091F945-F744-4C8F-95B3-A09E6EF6AE33
• Extent: Latitude: 60.86° to 54.525°
• Extent: Longitude: -9.229° to -0.705°
• Spatial reference system: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid [EPSG:27700]
• Dataset reference date: 2010-09-18 (creation)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: NatureScot (distributor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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