Identification

Title

Ancient Woodland (England)

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

The inventory identifies over 52,000 ancient woodland sites in England. Ancient woodland is identified using presence or absence of woods from old maps, information about the wood's name, shape, internal boundaries, location relative to other features, ground survey, and aerial photography. The information recorded about each wood and stored on the Inventory Database includes its grid reference, its area in hectares and how much is semi-natural or replanted. Prior to the digitisation of the boundaries, only paper maps depicting each ancient wood at 1:50 000 scale were available. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=008cdfcf-893b-48f6-937a-3891a2a698c9&fileName=Ancient Woodland England - Spatial Metadata.pdf

protocol: http

name: Ancient Woodland England - Spatial Metadata.pdf

description: Ancient Woodland England - Spatial Metadata.pdf download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=008cdfcf-893b-48f6-937a-3891a2a698c9&fileName=Ancient_Woodland.gdb.zip

protocol: http

name: Ancient_Woodland.gdb.zip

description: Ancient_Woodland.gdb.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=008cdfcf-893b-48f6-937a-3891a2a698c9&fileName=Ancient_Woodland.lyr

protocol: http

name: Ancient_Woodland.lyr

description: Ancient_Woodland.lyr download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=008cdfcf-893b-48f6-937a-3891a2a698c9&fileName=Ancient_Woodland_Inventory_Handbook.url

protocol: http

name: Ancient_Woodland_Inventory_Handbook.url

description: Ancient_Woodland_Inventory_Handbook.url download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=008cdfcf-893b-48f6-937a-3891a2a698c9&fileName=Open_Government_Licence.url

protocol: http

name: Open_Government_Licence.url

description: Open_Government_Licence.url download on Defra Data Services Platform

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/ancient-woodland-england/wms

protocol: http

name: AncientWoodlandEngland_WMS

description: Ancient Woodland (England) WMS

https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/f425f1e1-fc18-4b5a-88d8-76934125627c?download=true

protocol: http

name: AncientWoodlandEngland_Download

description: Download data by area of interest

https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/ancient-woodland-england/wfs

protocol: http

name: AncientWoodlandEngland_WFS

description: Ancient Woodland (England) WFS

https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ancient-woodland-england

protocol: http

name: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

description: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data.defra.gov.uk/Natural_England/Habitat_Species/Habitats/Ancient_Woodland_England_NE/Ancient_Woodland_England_Docs.zip

protocol: http

name: Guidance documents

description: Guidance documents

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

protocol: http

name: Ancient_Woodland_(England)_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint

description: Ancient Woodland (England) ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint

Unique resource identifier

code

57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6

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

environment

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.375

East bounding longitude

1.79

North bounding latitude

55.82

South bounding latitude

49.9

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2013-01-01

End position

2099-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2013-01-01

date type

revision

effective date

2024-05-17

Frequency of update

monthly

Quality and validity

Lineage

The information recorded about each wood and stored on the Inventory Database includes its grid reference, its area in hectares and how much is semi-natural or replanted. Prior to the digitisation of the boundaries, only paper maps depicting each ancient wood at 1:50 000 scale were available.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

10.2.2

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

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

2024-05-17

Metadata language