Ancient Woodland Inventory (Scotland)

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Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Last updated:
19 June 2024
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Summary

In response to a 1980 select committee which recommended that ancient woods should be recognised and treated as a separate category, the NCCs compiled the Inventories of Ancient, Long-established and Semi-natural woodlands. A more sophisticated classification was developed for woodlands in Scotland due to the nature of the available historical sources.

IMPORTANT For Scottish woods, the category Ancient comprises woods recorded as being of semi-natural origin on EITHER the 1750 Roy maps OR the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey maps of 1860. This is due a) to the likelihood of the latter having been omitted from the Roy maps and b) to render the Scottish classification compatible with that for England and Wales.

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NatureScot OpenData Hub N/A 19 June 2024 Not available
Geopackage (EPSG:27700) ZIP 19 June 2024 Not available
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GML (EPSG:4258) ZIP 19 June 2024 Not available
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Added to data.gov.uk
2023-07-20
Access contraints
Available under an OS Open Data licence. You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright NatureScot Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (year)
Harvest GUID
A091F945-F744-4C8F-95B3-A09E6EF6AE33
Extent
Latitude: 60.86° to °
Longitude: -9.229° to -0.705°
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid [EPSG:27700]
Dataset reference date
2010-09-18 (creation)
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
NatureScot (distributor)
ISO 19139 resource type
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Metadata language
eng
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