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:
- Publication date
- 19 February 2025
- 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
- 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