413cb082-53c5-4487-ae58-1f67ab89def7 eng utf8 dataset Natural England data.services@naturalengland.org.uk pointOfContact 2025-07-25 Environment Agency Metadata Profile 1.1 http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700 Moorland Deep Peat AP Status 2008-10-22 creation 2021-07-23 revision f7932e02-0396-41dc-8106-f7dcd5e539d3 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 the Partnership Project to Protect and Enhance Peat Soils (aka. The Peat Project). The Peat Project is a joint initiative of Defra, Natural England, the Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Welsh Assembly Government, Countryside Council for Wales, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Cadw and the Department for Energy and Climate Change, and aims to improve coordination between these partners in our efforts to understand, manage and restore peaty soils.BGS, Cranfield University (NSRI) and OS must be acknowledged in any reports or documents produced as a result of using the Peat layer. Attribution statement: Derived from 1:50 000 scale BGS Digital Data under Licence 2006/072 British Geological Survey. © NERC. National Soils map © Cranfield University (NSRI) © Crown Copyright and database rights [year]. © Natural England copyright [Year], reproduced with the permission of Natural England, https://www.gov.uk/help/terms-conditions © Crown Copyright and database right [year]. Ordnance Survey licence number 100022021. Natural England data.services@naturalengland.org.uk https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england Natural England Website pointOfContact notPlanned environment theme soil GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 2010-01-13 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet Non-Commercial Government Licence (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/) otherRestrictions license copyright There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified. otherRestrictions license copyright There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified. vector eng utf8 environment true -7.05 2.07 49.86 55.81 2008-10-22 2099-12-31 Open format | Portable Document Format - Standardized (PDF) https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c878dbca-978e-405c-a5e2-9ce5369ceb3b&fileName=England's peatlands carbon storage and greenhouse gases.url http England's peatlands carbon storage and greenhouse gases.url England's peatlands carbon storage and greenhouse gases.url download on Defra Data Services Platform https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c878dbca-978e-405c-a5e2-9ce5369ceb3b&fileName=Mapping the status of upland peat using aerial photographs.url http Mapping the status of upland peat using aerial photographs.url Mapping the status of upland peat using aerial photographs.url download on Defra Data Services Platform https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c878dbca-978e-405c-a5e2-9ce5369ceb3b&fileName=Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.gdb.zip http Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.gdb.zip Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.gdb.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c878dbca-978e-405c-a5e2-9ce5369ceb3b&fileName=Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.geojson.zip http Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.geojson.zip Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.geojson.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c878dbca-978e-405c-a5e2-9ce5369ceb3b&fileName=Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.gpkg.zip http Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.gpkg.zip Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.gpkg.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c878dbca-978e-405c-a5e2-9ce5369ceb3b&fileName=Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.shp.zip http Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.shp.zip Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status.shp.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c878dbca-978e-405c-a5e2-9ce5369ceb3b&fileName=Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status_England.lyr http Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status_England.lyr Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status_England.lyr download on Defra Data Services Platform https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c878dbca-978e-405c-a5e2-9ce5369ceb3b&fileName=National Soils map.url http National Soils map.url National Soils map.url download on Defra Data Services Platform https://environment.data.gov.uk/api/file/download?fileDataSetId=c878dbca-978e-405c-a5e2-9ce5369ceb3b&fileName=Non-Commercial Government Licence.url http Non-Commercial Government Licence.url Non-Commercial Government Licence.url download on Defra Data Services Platform http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/369581 http Natural England Access to Evidence Catalogue https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/moorland-deep-peat-ap-status-england/wms http Moorland-deep-peat-ap-status-england_WMS https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/moorland-deep-peat-ap-status-england/wfs http Moorland-deep-peat-ap-status-england_WFS https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/413cb082-53c5-4487-ae58-1f67ab89def7?download=true http Moorland Deep Peat AP Status England Download Download data by area of interest https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/NE/MoorlandDeepPeatAPStatusEngland/MapServer http MoorlandDeepPeatAPStatusEngland_REST REST URL https://environment.data.gov.uk/arcgis/rest/services/NE/MoorlandDeepPeatAPStatusEngland/FeatureServer http Moorland_Deep_Peat_AP_Status_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint Moorland Deep Peat AP Status ESRI REST Feature Server Endpoint https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/Defra::moorland-deep-peat-ap-status-england/about http ArcGIS Open Dataset record page https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/moorland-deep-peat-ap-status-england/ogc/features/v1 http OGC API - Features service OGC API - Features service dataset Several data layers were used in the geoprocessing to create the Moorland Deep AP Status data. The approach involved identifying areas of deep peat within the Moorland Line using soil, geological drift and habitat mapping, and using aerial photographs taken between 1999-2008, to create maps of visible peatland status and land use. National Soils map data © Cranfield University, BGS geology data and blanket bog data taken from the National Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) were used to show the location of peaty soils. This provided an indicative layer for the area of peat and peat soils in England. Soils classed as “deep peaty soils” were selected for use in this project. Moorland line classification was used to select upland areas from within this mapped area of deep peaty soils. The moorland line is mapped to represent areas of unimproved, moorland vegetation representations to remove areas of non-moorland land from the moorland line. As such, it represents our best mapping of upland moorland in England, and should contain no areas of non-moorland vegetation larger than 5ha in size. This provides a map of deep peaty soils under moorland vegetation. In addition, all areas under 1ha were deleted from the data set. The aim of this was to remove all areas which were smaller than the minimum mappable unit for this exercise and to reduce the total number of polygons to be assessed, while maintaining the greatest possible assessment area. More information can be found in the Natural England Commissioned Report NECR089 Mapping the status of upland peat using aerial photographs on Natural England’s Access to Evidence site http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/. Datasets used; 1:50 000 scale drift mapping - BGS National Soils map - Cranfield University (NSRI) Moorland Line - RPA National Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP), National Parks & Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) – NE