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Long Established Woodland Inventory (England)

Summary

Long established woodland has been present in England since at least 1893. While not ancient, these woodlands are still very important. They have had many decades to develop rich biodiversity and they often contain important old-growth features and deliver a range of ecosystem services.

Categories

Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Attribution statement

© Natural England 2025, Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2025. OS AC0000851168

Use constraints

No other use constraints.

Technical Information

Update frequency

irregular

Lineage
The woodland boundaries are digitised to OS MasterMap - assessed by licencing staff as suitable for OS Presumption to Publish process. However, the maps that Woodlands are based upon include the OS 1" First Edition maps, the OS 1:25 000 and the OS 1:50 000 maps. The boundaries cannot be taken as precise, especially where they are surrounded by woodland, and are only precisely comparable with other boundaries at the 1" map scale (1:63 360. Woodland is identified using presence or absence of woods from old maps, information about the wood's name, shape, symbology and internal boundaries. The information recorded about each wood and stored on the Inventory Database includes its grid reference, common name and its area in hectares.

Spatial Information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.8647926358421 to 55.8111151497005
  • Longitude from: -6.41866722959945 to 1.76370560966352

Metadata Information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

5f833d7a-978b-46db-a61e-7f133aef7d2e

Data and Supporting Information

Data services and download by area of interestLinkAction
Natural England Open Data Geoportal dataset pageOpen link
Long Established Woodland (England) - ESRI REST Feature Service APIOpen link
Full downloads and supporting documentationFormatAction
LEW_Publishing_Attribute_Metadata.pdfPDFDownload
LEW_Publishing_Spatial_Metadata.pdfPDFDownload
Long_Established_Woodland_England.lyrLYRDownload
Long_Established_Woodland_England.lyrxLYRXDownload
Readme Supporting Document-Long-Established Woodland.pdfPDFDownload