National Character Areas (England)

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Summary

There are 159 Character Areas, each of which is distinctive with a unique 'sense of place'. These broad divisions of landscape form the basic units of cohesive countryside character, on which strategies for both ecological and landscape issues can be based. The Character Area framework is used to describe and shape objectives for the countryside, its planning and management.

Two new fields added January 2023: ALT - Agricultural Landscape Typology BLT - Broad Landscape Typology Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

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National_Character_Areas_(England)_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland_WMS N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland_WFS N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland_Download N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
ArcGIS Open Dataset record page N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Open_Government_Licence.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
National_Character_Areas_Profiles.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
National_Character_Areas_Interactive_Map.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
National_Character_Areas_England.lyr N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-TAB.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-SHP.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-MID_MIF.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-KML.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-GML.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-GeoJSON.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-FGDB.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
Data_Gov_UK_Metadata_National_Character_Areas_England.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk
2023-12-18
Access contraints
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Harvest GUID
f955fff5-a132-4e25-8c7f-0d43664ff42e
Extent
Latitude: 55.8117° to 49.9554°
Longitude: -5.71709° to 1.76896°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2008-06-01 (publication)
2023-01-15 (revision)
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notPlanned
Responsible party
Natural England (pointOfContact)
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