Provisional Agricultural Land Classification (ALC)

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• Last updated: 03 June 2024
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Summary

Provisional Agricultural Land Classification Grade. Agricultural land classified into five grades. Grade one is best quality and grade five is poorest quality. A number of consistent criteria used for assessment which include climate (temperature, rainfall, aspect, exposure, frost risk), site (gradient, micro-relief, flood risk) and soil (depth, structure, texture, chemicals, stoniness) for England only. Digitised from the published 1:250,000 map which was in turn compiled from the 1 inch to the mile maps. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
OGC API - Features service	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
ArcGIS Open Dataset record page	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland_Download	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland_WMS	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland_WFS	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
Open_Government_Licence.url	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
Data_Gov_UK_Metadata_Agricultural_Land_Classification_Provisional_England.url	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
ALC_TIN049_Edition2.url	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
ALC_E_and_W_Revised_Guidelines_and_Criteria_1988.url	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
Agricultural_Land_Classification_Provisional_England.lyr	N/A	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland-TAB.zip	ZIP	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland-SHP.zip	ZIP	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland-MID_MIF.zip	ZIP	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland-KML.zip	ZIP	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland-GML.zip	ZIP	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland-GeoJSON.zip	ZIP	03 June 2024	Not available
AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland-FGDB.zip	ZIP	03 June 2024	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-05-31
• Access contraints: There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
• Harvest GUID: af1b847b-037b-4772-9c31-7edf584522aa
• Extent: Latitude: 55.8117° to 49.9554°
• Extent: Longitude: -5.71709° to 1.76896°
• Spatial reference system: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
• Dataset reference date: 2007-05-15 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2019-02-15 (revision)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Natural England (pointOfContact)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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