Identification

Title

Forestry England Legal Boundary

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

This dataset is a product of the Land Transaction layer within ForesterWeb used for maintaining estate transactions in England. Legal boundary relates to the estate extent held in ForesterWeb, that is used to interrogate and maintain estate transactions by Forest Research on behalf of Forestry England. Attribution statement: © Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

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

protocol: http

name: Forestry England Legal Boundary

description: This dataset is a product of the Land Transaction layer within ForesterWeb used for maintaining estate transactions in England.

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

England

Estates

Land transaction

environment

Keyword set

keyword value

forestry

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

2025-01-17

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Since 2017 maintenance in ArcGIS has been supplanted by 'ForesterWeb' cloud based mapping solution. Prior to 2017 estates data was maintained via the Deed Management System within Desktop ArcGIS. The Legal Boundary layer shows our current legal boundaries generated by Forest District. The internal deed boundaries are not shown and does not have deed attributes attached, just names for the districts. This file will be used widely throughout the FC, in various GIS projects where a picture of our land holdings is required.

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

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

2025-02-10

Metadata language