Identification

Title

Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (England)

Alternative title(s)

AONB

Abstract

AONBs are designated areas where protection is afforded to protect and manage the areas for visitors and local residents. Under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, Natural England has the power to designate areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs) in England that are outside national parks and that are considered to have such natural beauty it is desirable they are conserved and enhanced; issue a variation order to change an existing AONB boundary. It also holds a duty to give advice on developments taking place in an AONB; take into account the conservation and enhancement of AONBs in its work. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year]. Attribution statement: Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/areas-of-outstanding-natural-beauty-england

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

description: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=NE/AreasOfOutstandingNaturalBeautyEngland&Mode=spatial

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

description: AreasOfOutstandingNaturalBeautyEngland_Download

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/areas-of-outstanding-natural-beauty-england/wfs

protocol: OGC:WFS

description: AreasOfOutstandingNaturalBeautyEngland_WFS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/areas-of-outstanding-natural-beauty-england/wms

protocol: OGC:WMS

description: AreasOfOutstandingNaturalBeautyEngland_WMS

Unique resource identifier

code

57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6

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

OpenData

Keyword set

keyword value

NEbatch4

Keyword set

keyword value

Land use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-07-25

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.41736

East bounding longitude

2.05827

North bounding latitude

55.7447

South bounding latitude

49.8625

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1949-12-31

End position

2099-01-01

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1949-12-31

date type

publication

effective date

2015-05-11

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

All data is captured to the Ordnance Survey National Grid sometimes called the British National Grid. OS MasterMap Topographic Layer – produced and supplied by Ordnance Survey from data at 1:1250, 1:2500 and 1:10000 surveying and mapping standards - is used as the primary source. Other sources – acquired internally and from external suppliers - may include aerial imagery at resolutions ranging from 25cm to 2m, Ordnance Survey 1:10000 raster images, historical OS mapping, charts and chart data from UK Hydrographic Office and other sources, scanned images of paper designation mapping (mostly originally produced at 1:10560 or 1:10000 scales), GPS and other surveyed data, and absolute coordinates. The data was first captured against an August 2002 cut of OS MasterMap Topography. Natural England has successfully uploaded an up-to-date version of OS MasterMap Topographic Layer. However, we have not yet updated our designated data holding to this new version of MasterMap. This should occur in the near future, when we will simultaneously apply positional accuracy improvement (PAI) to our data.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

10.2.2

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

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

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

description: Natural England Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-03-18

Metadata language

eng