Identification

Title

Forestry England Recreation Areas

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

A recreation area feature which is managed and has a physical boundary (e.g. a car park, play area or building). Vehicle - Purpose built and installed FE asset, or regularly used natural feature, which has management activity and investment (e.g. Car park, lay-by, woodland bays). Visitor area - Purpose built and installed FE asset, which has management activity and investment (e.g. BBQ area, picnic, education, events, arboretum). Sports - Purpose built and installed FE asset (or sub-let), which has management activity and investment (e.g. Archery, bike park, ropes course, GoApe, climbing). Building - Purpose built and installed FE asset, which has management activity and investment. Visitor centre, toilet, cycle hire, catering, shelter, retail outlet. Play - FE area designated for play activities, which has management activity and investment (Deb building, play area, paddling). Accommodation - Purpose built and installed FE asset, which has management activity and investment (e.g. Camp site, cabin site, caravan site, wild camp area). Ponds/Lakes - Natural or man-made feature, which has management activity and investment (Natural, fishing, model boats, duck flighting). Concert - FE area designated for concert activities, which has management activity and investment (Stage, backstage, viewing area). Attribution statement: © Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/

protocol: http

name: Forestry England Recreation Areas

description: A recreation area feature which is managed and has a physical boundary (e.g. a car park, play area or building).

Unique resource identifier

code

a1fdf1f9-c208-4b1d-8c64-2ab00476df18

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

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Asset

England

environment

Keyword set

keyword value

inventory

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

forest management

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

recreation

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.236

East bounding longitude

2.072

North bounding latitude

55.816

South bounding latitude

49.943

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2012-10-27

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2012-10-27

date type

revision

effective date

2025-01-22

Frequency of update

annually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Forester Rec extension was rolled out to FDs in 2010. Since then FDs have been using this to record new rec features and incorporating those prevoiously stored locally.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence v3.0. (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)

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

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

web address

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

description: Forestry Commission England Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-02-06

Metadata language