Identification

Title
Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21
Abstract

This dataset comprises of the boundaries of Ancient Woodland sites in Wales which are those which have been wooded for around 400 years or more. Each site is categorised as either Ancient Semi Natural Woodland (ASNW), Restored Ancient Woodland Site (RAWS), Plantation on Ancient Woodland Site (PAWS) or Ancient Woodland Site of Unknown Category (AWSU). The ancient woodland inventory was updated in 2021 and includes changes resulting from the provision of additional evidence presented to NRW through public enquiries, as assessed by a panel of NRW experts. Ancient woodlands are recognised as being rich in diversity and provide valuable habitats for a range of woodland dependent species, as well as having a rich soil carbon store. They can be detrimentally affected by inappropriate planting on adjacent land, but equally can benefit from well-designed native woodland buffers. This data layer is primarily included to flag the existence of these ancient woodland sites to ensure the appropriate design of new woodland creation proposals on adjacent land. For further information see GN002.

Licence
Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)

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Copyright:

None

Publication date
Type
Spatial data
Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
Group
Land Nature Food

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:27700
Extension x0
179564.515625
Extension x1
355313.875
Extension y0
166211.984375
Extension y1
393896.25

Features

Purpose

<p>This dataset has been created for the Woodland Opportunity Map (WOM) only, and may not reflect the most current dataset.</p>

Spatial Representation Type
Vector data is used to represent geographic data

Contact

Email
data@gov.wales
Organisation
Welsh Government
Department
land nature food

References

Link online
/layers/geonode:wom_ancient_woodland_inventory
Metadata page
/layers/geonode:wom_ancient_woodland_inventory/metadata_detail

GML 3.1.1
Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21.gml
Zipped Shapefile
Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21.zip
GeoJSON
Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21.json
Excel
Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21.excel
CSV
Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21.csv
GML 2.0
Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21.gml
DXF
Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21.dxf
OGC Geopackage
Woodland Opportunity Map - Ancient Woodland Inventory 21.gpkg

OWS endpoints

WMS
WFS