Country Parks (England)

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Summary

More than 400 Country Parks exist. They are public green spaces often at the edge of urban areas which provide places to enjoy the outdoors and experience nature in an informal semi-rural park setting. Country Parks normally have some facilities such as a car park, toilets, perhaps a cafe or kiosk, paths and trails, and visitor information. There is not necessarily public right of access, although most are publicly accessible; some charge entry others do not. Most are owned and managed by Local Authorities. Many Country Parks were designated in the 1970s by the then Countryside Commission, under the Countryside Act 1968. More recently Country Parks have been created under a less formal arrangement and Natural England is working with partners to encourage a renaissance and accreditation of parks which meet certain criteria. The dataset contains boundaries of each Country Park, digitised against Ordnance Survey MasterMap using source maps supplied by Local Authorities. If you are an owner/manager of a Country Park and would like to tell Natural England about a boundary change please contact. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year]. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

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Country_Parks_(England)_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
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CountryParksEngland_WMS N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
CountryParksEngland_WFS N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
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Open_Government_Licence.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
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CountryParksEngland-TAB.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
CountryParksEngland-SHP.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
CountryParksEngland-MID_MIF.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
CountryParksEngland-KML.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
CountryParksEngland-GML.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
CountryParksEngland-GeoJSON.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
CountryParksEngland-FGDB.zip ZIP 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
697b86c9-5dce-4b60-9241-e590bf1d3a99
Extent
Latitude: 55.8117° to 49.86°
Longitude: -7.05° to 2.07°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2011-12-01 (publication)
2022-11-15 (revision)
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Natural England (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
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Metadata language
eng
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