Identification

Title

EWCO - Keeping Rivers Cool Riparian Buffers

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

Spatial data supporting appropriately located and designed woodland creation where this will provide dappled shade to improve aquatic ecology by reducing summer water temperatures and benefiting wildlife dispersal (for example, otter) along the corridors of habitat this creates. The data represents a 50 m buffer around patches of surface waterbodies (rivers) with little or no existing riparian shade. Sections of river with the least amount of shading from riparian vegetation are considered to be priority areas for tree planting and therefore candidates for incentives such as additional grant aid to encourage woodland creation to provide greater shading in the future. Data input sources: - Relative riparian shade map (Environment Agency) Attributes: ‘AreaHa’ – Area of the feature in hectares. Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

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

protocol: http

name: EWCO - Keeping Rivers Cool Riparian Buffers

description: Forestry Commission Open Data Site

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

GB

Riparian

Rivers

Woodland

environment

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

environment

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

forestry

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

river

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

woodland ecosystem

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.993822

East bounding longitude

2.828061

North bounding latitude

56.393032

South bounding latitude

49.330293

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2023-01-13

End position

2023-01-13

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2023-01-13

date type

revision

effective date

2023-01-13

Frequency of update

unknown

Quality and validity

Lineage

First published to support the woodland creation grant under Countryside Stewardship (CS), launched in 2015. The layer methodology was then revised by Forest Research and the layer was updated in 2022/23 to cater for the new England Woodland Creation Offer (EWCO) scheme. A detailed methodology describing the development of this layer can be requested from evidence@forestrycommission.gov.uk.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

1998

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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

2025-03-05

Metadata language