Identification info

Metadata Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Dataset Reference Date (Creation)

1997-01-01

Dataset Reference Date (Revision)

2016-11-16

Identifier

www.gov.scot / SG_AgriculturalParishes

Presentation form

Digital map

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

IPSV Subjects List

• Agricultural land

Limitations on Public Access

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Open Government Licence

Other constraints

The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

10000

Topic category

• Boundaries
• Farming

Code

S92000003

 

Code

EPSG:4258

Code

EPSG:27700

Distribution Information

 

Data quality info

Quality Scope

Dataset

Statement

The dataset was originally digitised from 1946 Ordnance Survey 1/4 inch to mile mapping in 1997 by the Scottish Office Digital Mapping Service and a further QA was carried out in 2003 by the Scottish Executive Geographical Information Service. The 2016 revision to the dataset was carried out by The James Hutton Institute as part of their work for the Areas of National Constraint (ANC) designation, and is derived from Civil Parish and Agricultural Parish datasets published by National Records of Scotland and The Scottish Government respectively. Civil parish boundaries were used in large measure to re-capture the agricultural boundaries at higher spatial resolution than they existed in the original layer. Where these did not contain some of the splits between parishes seen in the original agricultural parish boundary layer (such as in Orkney, Shetland, Edinburgh), historic Ordnance Survey 6-inch to the mile mapping (scale 1:10,560 – i.e. consistent with the scale of capture of the civil parish boundaries) was used to derive the boundaries. A new coastline has been applied which follows the Mean High Water (Springs) tide line marked in Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer (extracted January 2016). The result is an improved representation of the Agricultural Parish Boundaries at approximately 1:10,000 scale. GSS codes were assigned in September 2023 to allow for the publication of Official Statistics for this geography. The original parish codes also remain in use.

 

Metadata

File identifier

c1d34a5d-28a7-4944-9892-196ca6b3be0c XML

Metadata Language

English

Resource type

Dataset

Metadata Date

2023-09-04T11:08:43

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3