Identification

Title
Woodland Opportunity Map - Deep Peat
Abstract

Deep peat is an important resource in Wales as a carbon store, contributing to the regulation of water flow and supporting specialist habitats. It is under threat from climate change and land management techniques including cultivation and draining. The UK forestry Standard (UKFS) requires that woodland creation should not take place on soils with peat exceeding 50cm in depth or in line with Country Guidance. Such areas of deep peat must be removed from woodland creation proposals.

The ‘Peatlands of Wales’ map (2022) provides an updated distribution of peat across Wales. It forms part of a series of peatland maps including peat evidence score and carbon stock estimates displayed on Data map Wales. The data layers were created on a 50m grid whereby the presence of peat were elucidated from a range of sources for each 50m grid cell across Wales.  Each grid cell is given an evidence score defining the level of confidence in the presence of peat. This dataset provides an outline of all the 50m grid cells that have a peatland evidence score of 2 or greater.

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  are presented in the Peatlands of Wales mapping methodology report. 

 

Licence
Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)

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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
180950.0
Extension x1
352100.03125
Extension y0
176000.0
Extension y1
394350.03125

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_deep_peat
Metadata page
/layers/geonode:wom_deep_peat/metadata_detail

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

OWS endpoints

WMS
WFS