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National Character Areas (England)

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

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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

No Lineage Available

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.9554 to 55.8117
  • Longitude from: -5.71709 to 1.76896
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

f955fff5-a132-4e25-8c7f-0d43664ff42e


Published by

Natural England


Dataset reference dates

Creation date

N/A

Revision date

15 January 2023

Publication date

01 June 2008

Period

  • N/A

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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
National Character Areas (England) ESRI REST Feature Server EndpointOpen link
National Character Areas (England) WMSCopy linkPreview
National Character Areas (England) WFSCopy linkN/A
Full downloads and supporting documentationFormatAction
Data_Gov_UK_Metadata_National_Character_Areas_England.urlURLDownload
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-FGDB.zipZIPDownload
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-GeoJSON.zipZIPDownload
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-GML.zipZIPDownload
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-KML.zipZIPDownload
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-MID_MIF.zipZIPDownload
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-SHP.zipZIPDownload
NationalCharacterAreasEngland-TAB.zipZIPDownload
National_Character_Areas_England.lyrLYRDownload
National_Character_Areas_Interactive_Map.urlURLDownload
National_Character_Areas_Profiles.urlURLDownload
Open_Government_Licence.urlURLDownload