Agricultural Parishes
Agricultural parishes are based on Civil Parishes which were abolished as an administrative unit in Scotland in 1975. Agricultural parishes continue to be used for boundary and statistical purposes. Agricultural parish boundaries were last updated in 2016. There are 891 agricultural parishes in Scotland and they are used in the Agricultural Census and for the payment of farming grants and subsidies. The dataset contains parish boundaries, parish names, parish codes and GSS codes (the latter were assigned in September 2023 to allow for the publication of Official Statistics for this geography, although the original parish codes also remain in use).
dataset
https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/AgricultureEnvironment/MapServer/WMSServer?
protocol: OGC:WMS
name: AgriculturalParishes
description: OGC View Service
function: information
https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/AgricultureEnvironment/MapServer/WFSServer?
protocol: OGC:WFS
name: AE:AgriculturalParishes
description: OGC Feature Download Service
function: download
https://maps.gov.scot/server/rest/services/ScotGov/AgricultureEnvironment/MapServer/1
protocol: ESRI:REST
name: Agricultural Parishes
description: ESRI REST Service
function: download
https://maps.gov.scot/ATOM/shapefiles/SG_AgriculturalParishes_2016.zip
protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
name: Agricultural Parishes
description: ESRI Shapefile Download
function: download
SG_AgriculturalParishes
www.gov.scot
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boundaries
farming
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
publication
2008-06-01
Agricultural land
publication
2020-11-18
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-0.71
60.87
54.63
creation
1997-01-01
revision
2016-11-16
notPlanned
The dataset was originally digitised from 1946 Ordnance Survey 1/4 inch to mile mapping in 1997 by the Scottish Office Digital Mapping Service and a further QA was carried out in 2003 by the Scottish Executive Geographical Information Service. The 2016 revision to the dataset was carried out by The James Hutton Institute as part of their work for the Areas of National Constraint (ANC) designation, and is derived from Civil Parish and Agricultural Parish datasets published by National Records of Scotland and The Scottish Government respectively. Civil parish boundaries were used in large measure to re-capture the agricultural boundaries at higher spatial resolution than they existed in the original layer. Where these did not contain some of the splits between parishes seen in the original agricultural parish boundary layer (such as in Orkney, Shetland, Edinburgh), historic Ordnance Survey 6-inch to the mile mapping (scale 1:10,560 – i.e. consistent with the scale of capture of the civil parish boundaries) was used to derive the boundaries. A new coastline has been applied which follows the Mean High Water (Springs) tide line marked in Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer (extracted January 2016). The result is an improved representation of the Agricultural Parish Boundaries at approximately 1:10,000 scale. GSS codes were assigned in September 2023 to allow for the publication of Official Statistics for this geography. The original parish codes also remain in use.
publication
2010-12-08
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WMS
1.3.0
The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)
Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team
Scottish Government
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
United Kingdom
publisher
GIS Specialist
The James Hutton Institute
The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen
AB15 8QH
United Kingdom
pointOfContact
Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team
Scottish Government
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
United Kingdom
pointOfContact
2023-09-04T11:08:43