Agricultural Land Classification detailed Post 1988 survey ALCB18988a

• Published by: Natural England
• Last updated: 16 February 2016
• Topic: Towns and cities
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

Survey name:Exeter, Around Monkerton Post 1988 Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) site survey data – scanned original paper maps and survey reports for individual sites surveyed in detail between 1989 and 1999 by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food. Where Grade 3 is mapped this includes the subdivision of Grade 3 into subgrades 3a and 3b. Surveys use the current grading methodology as described in "Agricultural Land Classification of England and Wales. Revised guidelines and criteria for grading the quality of agricultural land (MAFF, 1988)":http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130402151656/http:/archive.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/landmanage/land-use/documents/alc-guidelines-1988.pdf. Individual sites have been mapped at varying scales and level of detail from 1:5,000 to 1:50,000 (typically 1:10,000). Unedited sample point soils data and soil pit descriptions are also available for some surveys.
Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2016-02-15
• Access contraints: There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
• Harvest GUID: c2c84826-c9f8-49b1-8215-30f996c93da6
• Extent: Latitude: 51.25° to 50.20°
• Extent: Longitude: -4.68° to -2.89°
• Dataset reference date: 2016-02-02 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Natural England (distributor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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