Identification

Title

Peaty Soils Location

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

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. Attribution statement: Contains IPR from Cranfield University (NSRI) soils data and BGS geological data. 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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=080908 Peat Location Map Verification and Recommendations.doc

protocol: http

name: 080908 Peat Location Map Verification and Recommendations.doc

description: 080908 Peat Location Map Verification and Recommendations.doc download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=England's peatlands carbon storage and greenhouse gases.url

protocol: http

name: England's peatlands carbon storage and greenhouse gases.url

description: England's peatlands carbon storage and greenhouse gases.url download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=Mapping the status of upland peat using aerial photographs.url

protocol: http

name: Mapping the status of upland peat using aerial photographs.url

description: Mapping the status of upland peat using aerial photographs.url download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=National Soils map.url

protocol: http

name: National Soils map.url

description: National Soils map.url download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=Non-Commercial Government Licence.url

protocol: http

name: Non-Commercial Government Licence.url

description: Non-Commercial Government Licence.url download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=PeatySoilsLocationEngland-FGDB.zip

protocol: http

name: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-FGDB.zip

description: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-FGDB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=PeatySoilsLocationEngland-GeoJSON.zip

protocol: http

name: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-GeoJSON.zip

description: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-GeoJSON.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=PeatySoilsLocationEngland-GML.zip

protocol: http

name: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-GML.zip

description: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-GML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=PeatySoilsLocationEngland-KML.zip

protocol: http

name: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-KML.zip

description: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-KML.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=PeatySoilsLocationEngland-MID_MIF.zip

protocol: http

name: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-MID_MIF.zip

description: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-MID_MIF.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=PeatySoilsLocationEngland-SHP.zip

protocol: http

name: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-SHP.zip

description: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-SHP.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=PeatySoilsLocationEngland-TAB.zip

protocol: http

name: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-TAB.zip

description: PeatySoilsLocationEngland-TAB.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=889342dd-ceba-48f7-a4bd-497e3f0c1807&fileName=Peaty_Soils_Location_England.lyr

protocol: http

name: Peaty_Soils_Location_England.lyr

description: Peaty_Soils_Location_England.lyr download on Defra Data Services Platform

http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/30021

protocol: http

name: Natural England Access to Evidence Catalogue

description: Natural England Access to Evidence Catalogue

https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/Defra::peaty-soils-location-england/about

protocol: http

name: Peaty Soils Location (England)

description:

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/peaty-soils-location-england/wms

protocol: http

name: Peaty-soils-location-england_WMS

description:

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/peaty-soils-location-england/wfs

protocol: http

name: Peaty-soils-location-england_WFS

description:

https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/55e74635-e65d-4997-8e6e-46bb76c6a0e0?download=true

protocol: http

name: Peaty Soils Location England Download

description: Download data by area of interest

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/NE/PeatySoilsLocationEngland/MapServer

protocol: http

name: PeatySoilsLocationEngland_REST

description: REST URL

https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/NE/PeatySoilsLocationEngland/FeatureServer

protocol: http

name: Peaty_Soils_Location_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint

description: Peaty Soils Location ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint

Unique resource identifier

code

f7932e02-0396-41dc-8106-f7dcd5e539d3

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

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Peat Status

geoscientificInformation

Keyword set

keyword value

soil

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-7.05

East bounding longitude

2.07

North bounding latitude

55.81

South bounding latitude

49.86

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2008-10-22

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2008-10-22

date type

revision

effective date

2021-07-23

Frequency of update

unknown

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Portable Document Format - Standardized (PDF)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Non-Commercial Government Licence (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/)

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

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

2024-05-08

Metadata language

eng