Wood Pasture and Parkland (England)

Data subject: Provisional wood-pasture and parkland inventory created during the Natural England Wood-pasture and Parkland Inventory update. Methods of Data Capture: Collation of data from existing national provisional inventory, local record centres, local councils and other sources, verified using Epoch 1-4 maps and aerial photography. Parkland was defined as areas with a minimum of 3 trees, excluding boundary trees, which had less than 250 m between trees. Park extent was mapped to boundary features where park trees were less than 100 m from the boundary or the boundary included a large tree which was less than 250 m from a park tree. Some areas of woodland were included where possible park trees were present. Some open areas and wooded areas were not removed as the precise extent of parkland habitat was difficult to determine from aerial photography. Cemeteries and churchyards were excluded unless they were entirely within the park boundary. The minimum mappable unit for the inventory was 0.25ha. Metalled roads and rivers were excluded according to Natural England mapping rules, therefore some areas <0.25ha may be present if separated by a road. See the data capture rule base for full details. Geographic coverage: England wide. Temporal coverage: 1976 onwards. In total 9815 polygons were captured, covering approximately 278,004.57Ha. Confidence in the data: Each record has been assigned a confidence level based upon the quantity and quality of the source data.