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Special Protection Areas (England)

Summary

A Special Protection Area (SPA) is the land classified under Directive 79/409 on the Conservation of Wild Birds. Data supplied has the status "Classified". The data does not include "proposed" sites. Boundaries are mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap.

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

Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Technical information

Update frequency

notPlanned

Lineage

All data is captured to the Ordnance Survey National Grid sometimes called the British National Grid. OS MasterMap Topographic Layer – produced and supplied by Ordnance Survey from data at 1:1250, 1:2500 and 1:10000 surveying and mapping standards - is used as the primary source. Other sources – acquired internally and from external suppliers - may include aerial imagery at resolutions ranging from 25cm to 2m, Ordnance Survey 1:10000 raster images, historical OS mapping, charts and chart data from UK Hydrographic Office and other sources, scanned images of paper designation mapping (mostly originally produced at 1:10560 or 1:10000 scales), GPS and other surveyed data, and absolute coordinates. The data was first captured against an August 2002 cut of OS MasterMap Topography. Natural England has successfully uploaded an up-to-date version of OS MasterMap Topographic Layer. However, we have not yet updated our designated data holding to this new version of MasterMap. This should occur in the near future, when we will simultaneously apply positional accuracy improvement (PAI) to our data.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.8625 to 55.7447
  • Longitude from: -6.41736 to 2.05827
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

4c660eee-887e-4c8b-91e5-d84b4c1078ac


Published by

Natural England


Dataset reference dates

Creation date

N/A

Revision date

15 April 2024

Publication date

01 March 2016

Period

  • From: 01 January 1970
  • To: 31 December 2099

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Data and Supporting Information
Data services and download by area of interestLinkAction
Download data by area of interestN/AOpen link
ArcGIS Open Dataset record pageOpen link
Special Protection Areas (England) ESRI REST Feature Server EndpointOpen link
Special Protection Areas (England) WMSCopy linkPreview
Special Protection Areas (England) WFSCopy linkN/A
OGC API - Features serviceCopy linkOpen link
Full downloads and supporting documentationFormatAction
Data_Gov_UK_Metadata_Special_Protection_Areas_England.urlURLDownload
Open_Government_Licence.urlURLDownload
Special_Protection_Areas_England.lyrLYRDownload