Legacy Countryside Stewardship Scheme Agreements (England) - closed scheme

Former Countryside Stewardship Scheme live agreements holding boundaries data as at scheme closure in 2014. This Natural England dataset is static and does not include up to date information relating to the Countryside Stewardship Scheme. This scheme is now closed to new applicants. The Countryside Stewardship Scheme was originally an agri-environment scheme run by the United Kingdom Government set up in 1991. In its original form it expired in 2014 and has now fully expired. It was relaunched for the Rural Development Programme England (RDPE) 2014-2020 with £3.1bn of government subsidy for agriculture and forestry, as the Countryside Stewardship Scheme 2016. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Data and Resources

Countryside_Stewardship_Agreement_England.lyr

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Open_Government_Licence.url

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ArcGIS Open Dataset record page

ArcGIS Open Dataset record page
Countryside Stewardship Scheme Agreements (England) WMS

Countryside Stewardship Scheme Agreements (England) WMS
Countryside Stewardship Scheme Agreements (England) WFS

Countryside Stewardship Scheme Agreements (England) WFS
Countryside Stewardship Scheme Agreements (England) Download

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Countryside Stewardship Scheme Agreements (England) ESRI REST Map Server Endpoint

Countryside Stewardship Scheme Agreements (England) ESRI REST Map Server...
OGC API - Features service

OGC API - Features service

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Last Updated	August 5, 2025, 18:40 (UTC)
Created	October 23, 2017, 16:23 (UTC)