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Special Areas of Conservation (England)
A Special Area of Conservation (SAC) is the land designated under Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora. Data supplied has the... -
Sites of Special Scientific Interest Units (England)
Site Units are divisions of SSSIs. based on habitat, tenure and management, and are the basis for recording all information on SSSI Condition and management. They range in Area... -
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England)
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is the land notified as an SSSI under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981), as amended. Sites notified under the 1949 Act only... -
Severn Estuary SPA Functionally Linked Land Bird Sites
This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent of functionally linked sites, locations and counts (ie.individual records with a unique ID) of Severn Estuary SPA... -
Severn Estuary SPA Functionally Linked Land Bird Connectivity
This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent of functionally linked sites, locations and counts (ie.individual records with a unique ID) of Severn Estuary SPA... -
Ramsar (England)
A Ramsar site is the land listed as a Wetland of International Importance under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (the... -
Provisional Agricultural Land Classification (ALC)
Provisional Agricultural Land Classification Grade. Agricultural land classified into five grades. Grade one is best quality and grade five is poorest quality. A number of... -
Proposed Ramsar (England)
These are proposed site boundaries. Please note that as a result of the consultation there may be minor changes to the final boundary of the site once designated. A Ramsar site... -
Priority River Habitat - Rivers
"One of the two datasets that make up the Priority River Habitat Map. Consists of rivers and streams that exhibit a high degree of naturalness. The naturalness classification... -
Priority River Habitat - Headwater Areas
One of the two datasets that make up the Priority River Habitat Map. Under the UK BAP definition all headwaters potentially form part of the priority habitat definition. The... -
Priority Habitat Lakes (England)
Lakes (taken from the MasterMap Topography layer hydrology>static water) that meet one or more priority habiat critera. Attribution statement: © Natural England [year] ©... -
Potential Special Protection Areas (England)
These are potential site boundaries. Please note that as a result of the consultation there may be minor changes to the final boundary of the site once classified. A Special... -
Possible Special Areas of Conservation (England)
As of September 2025: This data product does not currently contain any geometry features, so the hosted data has been unshared from ArcGIS Online / Natural England Open Data... -
Peaty Soils Location
The Peat Layer was produced by Natural England (ARM team) during June-October 2008, with the aim of identifying the extent of three classes of peaty soils for the purposes of... -
Organic Farming Scheme Options (England)
Organic Farming Scheme Options points. The aim of the OFS is to encourage the expansion of organic production. Under the scheme, farmers moving from conventional to organic... -
Organic Farming Scheme Agreements (England)
Organic Farming Scheme agreements holding boundaries data. The aim of the OFS is to encourage the expansion of organic production. Under the scheme, farmers moving from... -
Open Mosaic Habitat (Draft)
Verified sites of Open Mosaic Habitat. Open mosaic habitats can be extremely diverse, including such wide ranging sites as railway sidings, quarries, former industrial works,... -
OS Priority Ponds with Survey Data (Polygons)
OS Ponds (taken from the MasterMap Topography layer) that have a matching pond survey (Clean Water for Wildlife of Priority Ponds) within their geometry, or within 30m of their... -
Nitrate Sensitive Areas
NSAs are carefully selected areas covering groundwater sources used to supply drinking water. In these areas incentives were offered to farmers to undertake significant changes... -
Nature Improvement Areas
NIAs are areas of the country where partnerships have been set up to enhance the natural environment. NIAs embody an integrated, holistic approach that was signalled in the...