Welsh Government 845fc020-ac23-11ec-ae34-badafa9877c9 845fc020-ac23-11ec-ae34-badafa9877c9 Peatlands of Wales 2022-04-04 2022-04-04 Other Restrictions The Peatlands of Wales map series provides an updated distribution of Welsh Peatlands (to 2022) based on current evidence sources. The data layers were created on a 50m grid whereby the presence and thickness of peat are elucidated from a range of sources for each 50m grid cell across Wales. A peatland evidence score defines the level of confidence in the presence of peat in any given grid cell, with those cells scoring more than 2 on this scale of 1-10, captured in the ‘Peatlands of Wales’ peat distribution map. This dataset provides the distribution of peat across Wales, with peat defined as having a thickness of more than 40cm of organic material within the upper 80cm of a soil profile. It is an outline of all the 50m sites that have a peatland evidence score of 2 or greater (as provided in the ‘Peatlands of Wales evidence’ map layer). Full details of the sources of data used to build this map as well as the methodologies used to define the level of evidence for the presence of peat and derivation of the peat evidence score as well as estimates of peat thickness (depth), carbon stock estimates and greenhouse gas emissions are presented in the Peatlands of Wales mapping methodology report  51.44052792850596 -5.296478183351256 53.44373030541416 -2.691161420561615