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Forestry England Recreation Areas

Summary

A recreation area feature which is managed and has a physical boundary (e.g. a car park, play area or building).

Vehicle - Purpose built and installed FE asset, or regularly used natural feature, which has management activity and investment (e.g. Car park, lay-by, woodland bays). Visitor area - Purpose built and installed FE asset, which has management activity and investment (e.g. BBQ area, picnic, education, events, arboretum). Sports - Purpose built and installed FE asset (or sub-let), which has management activity and investment (e.g. Archery, bike park, ropes course, GoApe, climbing). Building - Purpose built and installed FE asset, which has management activity and investment. Visitor centre, toilet, cycle hire, catering, shelter, retail outlet. Play - FE area designated for play activities, which has management activity and investment (Deb building, play area, paddling). Accommodation - Purpose built and installed FE asset, which has management activity and investment (e.g. Camp site, cabin site, caravan site, wild camp area). Ponds/Lakes - Natural or man-made feature, which has management activity and investment (Natural, fishing, model boats, duck flighting). Concert - FE area designated for concert activities, which has management activity and investment (Stage, backstage, viewing area).

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

© Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Technical information

Update frequency

annually

Lineage

Forester Rec extension was rolled out to FDs in 2010. Since then FDs have been using this to record new rec features and incorporating those prevoiously stored locally.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.943 to 55.816
  • Longitude from: -6.236 to 2.072
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

bb768e37-7fb6-4362-9f07-ecc50ef14793


Published by

Forestry Commission


Dataset reference dates

Creation date

27 October 2012

Revision date

22 January 2025

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 27 October 2012

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