Peaty Soils Location
The Peat Layer was produced by Natural England (ARM team) during June-October 2008, with the aim of identifying the extent of three classes of peaty soils for the purposes of the Partnership Project to Protect and Enhance Peat Soils (aka. The Peat Project). The Peat Project is a joint initiative of Defra, Natural England, the Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Welsh Assembly Government, Countryside Council for Wales, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Cadw and the Department for Energy and Climate Change, and aims to improve coordination between these partners in our efforts to understand, manage and restore peaty soils. BGS, Cranfield University (NSRI) and OS must be acknowledged in any reports or documents produced as a result of using the Peat layer. Derived from 1:50 000 scale BGS Digital Data under Licence 2006/072 British Geological Survey. © NERC.National Soils map © Cranfield University (NSRI) © Crown Copyright and database rights [year]. © Natural England copyright [Year], reproduced with the permission of Natural England, https://www.gov.uk/help/terms-conditions © Crown Copyright and database right [year]. Ordnance Survey licence number 100022021.
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Peat Status
Soil
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2018-07-25
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http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england
2008-10-22
2099-12-31
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2008-10-22
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2021-07-23
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Natural England undertook to produce a map of the location of peat soils. Following a review of the National Soils Map (NSRI, 2005), areas were classified into 4 different categories on the basis of their soil association. These were: Key peaty soils, Intermediate peaty soils, other organic soils and Mineral soils.The following other data sources were introduced into the mapping process:• National Peat Resources Inventory (NPRI - an inventory of raised bog, and raised bog peat) • Biodiversity Action Plan mapping of Blanket Bog and Fen • Drift geology (British Geological Survey, 2003)• Marsh, Reeds and Saltmarsh polygons from Ordnance Survey Mastermap data (OS, 2008).The provenance of the data predicting the location of deep peaty soils was determined, and each polygon was labelled with a code which indicated the dataset or sets upon which it was based. This generated 55 different “overlap” classes all of which are listed, alongside their six-letter codes, in Appendix 5. The area of land mapped as supporting deep peaty soils was determined, and the 13 highest priority overlap classes were identified. These represented the 12 overlap classes which accounted for more than 1% of the area of deep peaty soil mapped, and between them covered 91.7% of all deep peat mapped. An additional single-source class (NPRI only) was added to ensure that all single-source overlap classes would be represented in the validation exercise. The 13 classes selected covered 92.1% of all deep peaty soils mapped. From these 13 classes 10 polygons between 20 and 100 ha in size were randomly selected for ground truthing.
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