Galloway Dark Skies Park
A Dark Sky Park is a place with exceptionally dark night skies, a place where people have committed to keeping those skies dark, by controlling light pollution.
In November 2009, the International Dark-sky Association designated Galloway Forest Park as only the fourth Dark Sky Park in the world and the first in the UK.
But that's not all. The Galloway Park is REALLY dark - a Gold Tier Dark Skies park. Very few people live in the 300 square miles of forest and hills in the park so nights really are black - apart from the stars! Forestry Commission Scotland and the people of the park are committed to keeping it that way.
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FCPRODUCT.S_GALLOWAY_DARK_SKIES
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- 2009-11-01
- Date ()
- 2015-10-09
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FCPRODUCT.S_GALLOWAY_DARK_SKIES
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Forest Research
-Mapping & GeoData (Inventory, Forecasting & Operational Support Unit)
(Head of M&G
)Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road
,Edinburgh
,City of Edinburgh
,EH12 7AT
,United Kingdom
Forestry Commission
-Forest Enterprise
(Head of Forest Enterprise
)Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road
,Edinburgh
,City of Edinburgh
,EH12 7AT
,United Kingdom
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Forest Management
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Planning
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Environment
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Felling
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Landscape
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Woodland
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No limitations on public access
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Please ensure that the following acknowledgement is displayed on any hard copy: Reproduced by Permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of
HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right [year]. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100021242.
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- Open Government Licence
- Spatial representation type
- vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
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- Farming
- Biota
- Economy
- Environment
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GB-SCT
- Date ()
- 2007-12-13
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EPSG
/OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
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ESRI Shapefile
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WMS
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Forestry Commission Data Download
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
)Galloway Dark Skies Park
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Forestry Commission Open Data
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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- Scope
- dataset
- Statement
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This Galloway Dark Skies dataset contains a core area within a wider park boundary. The park boundary is based on the subset of Galloway Forest Park area. The core are is derived from the Forestry Commission's woodland sub-compartment database. There is an additional area included at the northern edge of the park that forms part of the Craigengillian estate.
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NAME: Park boundary or core area
COMMENT: More detail on park boundary
Metadata
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Resource Type
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2020-09-02
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UK GEMINI
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2.2
Forest Research
-Mapping & GeoData (Inventory, Forecasting & Operational Support Unit)
(Head of M&G
)Silvan House, 231 Corstorphine Road
,Edinburgh
,City of Edinburgh
,EH12 7AT
,United Kingdom