Identification info

Metadata Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Dataset Reference Date (Creation)

2010-09-18

Identifier

AWI

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Habitats and biotopes

Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary, version 2.00

• Woodlands

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.3

• woodland ecosystem

Limitations on Public Access

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Available under an OS Open Data licence. You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright NatureScot Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (year)

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no conditions apply

Spatial representation type

Vector

Distance

10  m

Topic category

• Biota
• Environment

 

Reference system identifier

EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid [EPSG:27700] / 7.2

Distribution Information

 

Data quality info

Quality Scope

Dataset

Statement

These Inventories have been published for a number of years and have been widely used for woodland management, local planning and strategic policy development.

In order that staff may use and interpret the Inventories correctly a short account of the original compilation work has been provided. If this document has not been included here please contact the Woodlands Group for a copy.

The status and methodology used to produce the Version 2.0 inventories is described in an I & A note "Further Development of the Inventory of Ancient and Long Established Woodland Sites and the Semi-natural Woodland Inventory".

Version 3.0 differs from Version 2.0 in two regards. Firstly, a new field 'Map_Origin' has been added to the dataset. This permits the identification of the historical map source of each wood, along with whether a wood was first recorded as being of semi-natural or plantation origin. The different categories are :

ASNO1750 - Ancient Semi-Natural Origin on Roy maps.

ASNO1860 - Ancient Semi-Natural Origin on 1st edition Ordnance Survey maps.

LEPO1750 - Long Established Plantation Origin on Roy maps.

LEPO1860 - Long Established Plantation Origin on 1st edition Ordnance Survey maps.

Other Roy - Woods of any origin on Roy maps, absent from 1st edition Ordnance Survey maps but present today.

Secondly, the Version 2.0 category of 'Recent' has been amended. This category used to contain two types of woods: those present on Roy maps, absent on the 1860 OS maps but present on the 1970 OS maps; together with an incomplete selection of woods for which no historical map documentation existed but were of high nature conservation value. These latter woods have been removed from Version 3.0 but may be identified by overlaying designated sites datasets with semi-natural woods on the Caledonian Partnership's Millennium Guide to Scotland's Forest Resource. The amended category in Version 3.0 is now titled 'Other (on Roy maps)', and signifies historical woods that have survived a break in continuity of woodland cover.

It should be noted that the records of long-established plantation origin (LEPO) woods - whether dating from 1750 or 1860 - are incomplete in the Borders area. While it is estimated that some 8,000 ha. of this woodland type exist in the Borders, for reasons of economy during the original paper compilation only 1,500 ha. of LEPOs were recorded.

Derivation

The inventories were derived from a desk-based exercise which examined woodlands from three sources :

1. The Military Survey of Scotland - 'Roy maps' - c. 1750

2. OS First Edition c. 1860

3. OS 1970 1:25,000

 

Metadata

File identifier

A091F945-F744-4C8F-95B3-A09E6EF6AE33 XML

Metadata Language

English

Resource type

Dataset

Metadata Date

2023-07-20T14:00:43

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3