Identification

Title

Agricultural Parishes

Abstract

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. 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 and parish codes.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

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: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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

Unique resource identifier

code

SG_AgriculturalParishes

codeSpace

www.gov.scot

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

boundaries

farming

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Agricultural land

originating controlled vocabulary

title

IPSV Subjects List

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-11-18

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.80

East bounding longitude

-0.71

North bounding latitude

60.87

South bounding latitude

54.63

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1997-01-01

date type

revision

effective date

2016-11-16

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

Data format

name of format

WMS

version of format

1.3.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

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)

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

email address

GI-SAT@gov.scot

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

contact position

GIS Specialist

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

full postal address

The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

United Kingdom

email address

Dave.Miller@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

email address

GI-SAT@gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-01-14T13:30:16

Metadata language

eng