Identification

Title

Open Access - Dedicated Forests (CRoW Act)

Alternative title(s)

Coedwigoedd Cyhoeddus Cymru

Public Forests 2014.LYR

Abstract

Dataset showing forests that comprised the freehold public forest estate dedicated by former Forestry Commission Wales (FCW), now Natural Resources Wales (NRW), under section 16 of the Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act in 2005. Some forest that was dedicated has since been sold and is now in private ownership. When using this data to understand the extent of Open Access , it should be used in conjunction with Open land, Open Country, Registered Common Land, Other Statutory Access Land and Other Dedicated Land from the same years.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://lle.gov.wales/catalogue/item/OpenAccessCountrysideRightsOfWayActCROWDedicatedLand/?lang=en

name: Download Data and Web Services

http://lle.gov.wales/services/wms/nrw?

name: Web Mapping Service

Unique resource identifier

code

112114

codeSpace

https://naturalresources.wales

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

OGP

code identifying the spatial reference system

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::BNG

Additional information source

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Land use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-07-24

Keyword set

keyword value

Forests

Woodlands

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-07-24

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.77774100

East bounding longitude

-2.60886500

North bounding latitude

53.51206700

South bounding latitude

51.24082900

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-07-24

code identifying the extent

Wales (WLS)

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2001-01-07

End position

2020-04-16

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-04-16

date type

revision

effective date

2008-02-06

Frequency of update

10-Yearly

Quality and validity

Lineage

First layer provided in 2005 and is updated every 10 years. Land is dedicated in perpetuity. Additions can be made to this dataset on a rolling basis (registered common land and open country is reviewed on a decadal basis, the last review was in 2014). The Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act 2000 applies to England and Wales only.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

© CNC/NRW All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100019741. Crown Copyright and Database Right Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose. Attribution Statement: Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100019741. Crown Copyright and Database Right.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Natural Resources Wales (NRW)

telephone number

0300 065 3000

email address

enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

responsible party role

owner

Responsible party

organisation name

Forestry Commission (FC)

telephone number

0300 067 5000

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

responsible party role

originator

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Natural Resources Wales (NRW)

telephone number

0300 065 3000

email address

enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-07-23

Metadata language