A right of way is a path that anyone has the legal right to use on foot, and sometimes using other modes of transport. Horse riders have a right to use bridleways, restricted byways and byways open to all traffic

Bridleway

Line dataset showing all approved stretches of the England Coast Path Route. The England Coast Path Route is a new National Trail being created by Natural England under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. The England Coast Path will be the longest managed and way-marked coastal path in the world. Natural England expects to complete work on the England Coast Path in 2020.

England Coast Path

A type of designation for an agricultural area which needs special protection because of its landscape, wildlife or historical value

Environmentally sensitive area

The Millennium Greens initiative set out to provide new areas of public open space close to people's homes that could be enjoyed permanently by the local community, in time to mark the start of the third millennium. They were to be breathing spaces - places for relaxation, play and enjoyment of nature and pleasant surroundings. They could be small or large, and in urban or rural locations.

Millenium Green

A point representing either the start/end of a highway or connectivity between two or more RoadLink features

Road Node

OpenStreetMap publically sourced data for pubs in the UK. Also includes openly licensed datafrom national mapping agencies. In the UK, this includes Ordnance survey data.

School

The inventory identifies over 52,000 ancient woodland sites in England. Ancient woodland is identified using presence or absence of woods from old maps, information about the wood's name, shape, internal boundaries, location relative to other features, ground survey, and aerial photography. The information recorded about each wood and stored on the Inventory Database includes its grid reference, its area in hectares and how much is semi-natural or replanted. Prior to the digitisation of the boundaries, only paper maps depicting each ancient wood at 1:50 000 scale were available.

This dataset comprises of the boundaries of Ancient Woodland sites in Wales. Each site is categorised as either Ancient Semi Natural Woodland (ASNW), Restored Ancient Woodland Site (RAWS), Plantation on Ancient Woodland Site (PAWS) or Ancient Woodland Site of Unknown Category (AWSU). Initially all woods greater than 2 ha shown on the Ordnance Survey (OS) 1:25 000 1st Series maps surveyed between 1880 and 1960 were considered. Evidence as to which of these were ancient was provided by presence on the earlier 19th century OS 1st Edition Maps (surveyed 1805 - 1873; scale 1:63 360).

In response to a 1980 select committee which recommended that ancient woods should be recognised and treated as a separate category, the NCCs compiled the Inventories of Ancient, Long-established and Semi-natural woodlands. A more sophisticated classification was developed for woodlands in Scotland due to the nature of the available historical sources. IMPORTANT. For Scottish woods, the category Ancient comprises woods recorded as being of semi-natural origin on EITHER the 1750 Roy maps OR the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey maps of 1860. This is due a) to the likelihood of the latter having been omitted from the Roy maps and b) to render the Scottish classification compatible with that for England and Wales.

Ancient Woodland

National Parks are run by National Park Authorities for the purpose of conserving and enhancing the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage and to provide opportunities for the understanding and enjoyment of the Park by the public. Alterations: Yorkshire Dales and Lake District National Park (Designation) boundaries modified 1st August 2016. South Downs National Park (Designation) modified on 2nd June 2010.

National Park

OpenStreetMap publically sourced data for golf courses in the UK. Also includes openly licensed datafrom national mapping agencies. In the UK, this includes Ordnance survey data.

Golf course

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 Ramsar Convention) 1971. Data supplied has the status of "Proposed"

Proposed Ramsar Site

The Historic England 'Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England', established in 1983, currently identifies over 1,600 sites assessed to be of particular significance. Here you can find out how and why we protect them.

Registered Park and Garden

Archaeological site 

AONBs are designated areas where protection is afforded to protect and manage the areas for visitors and local residents

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

World Heritage Sites are sites, places, monuments or buildings of "Outstanding Universal Value" to all humanity - today and in future generations. The World Heritage List includes a wide variety of exceptional cultural and natural sites, such as landscapes, cities, monuments, technological sites and modern buildings. There are 28 World Heritage Sites in the UK in 2011 including Stonehenge, Canterbury Cathedral, Saltaire, Hadrian???s Wall and the whole of the City of Bath.  

World Heritage site

An ecosystem associated with thin basic soil, such as that on chalk and limestone downland. Plants on calcareous grassland are typically short and hardy, and include grasses and herbs such as clover

Calcareous grassland

More than 400 Country Parks exist. They are public green spaces often at the edge of urban areas which provide places to enjoy the outdoors and experience nature in an informal semi-rural park setting. Country Parks normally have some facilities such as a car park, toilets, perhaps a cafe or kiosk, paths and trails, and visitor information. There is not necessarily public right of access, although most are publicly accessible; some charge entry others do not. Most are owned and managed by Local Authorities. Many Country Parks were designated in the 1970s by the then Countryside Commission, under the Countryside Act 1968. More recently Country Parks have been created under a less formal arrangement and Natural England is working with partners to encourage a renaissance and accreditation of parks which meet certain criteria. The dataset contains boundaries of each Country Park, digitised against Ordnance Survey MasterMap using source maps supplied by Local Authorities.

Country Park

Dataset representing streets primarily used to gain access to the property bordering it or between properties

Local Road

Railway stations are represented as point feature representing the buildings and platforms by a railway line where a train may stop to pick-up or drop-off goods or passengers.

Railway Station

Postal Sector

Tidal Boundary - High water mark 

This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent and location of Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (2006) Section 41 habitats of principal importance. This inventory replaces Natural England's previous separate BAP habitat inventories: blanket bog, coastal &amp; floodplain grazing marsh, coastal sand dunes, coastal vegetated shingle, deciduous woodland, fens, lowland calcareous grassland, lowland dry acid grassland, lowland heathland, lowland meadows, lowland raised bog, limestone pavements, maritime cliff and slope, mudflats, purple moor grass &amp; rush pastures, reedbeds, saline lagoons, traditional orchards, undetermined grassland, upland calcareous grassland, upland hay meadows and upland heathland. These earlier inventories were produced from 1999 onwards and derived from habitat datasets collated from across the country, prioritising areas outside of designated sites.

Raised bog

NaPTAN is the national system for uniquely identifying points of access to public transport in England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain). It is a core component of the GB national transport information infrastructure and is used by a number of other UK standards and information systems. Every station, coach terminus, airport, ferry terminal, bus stop, etc., is allocated at least one identifier.

Coach Stop

A feature that represents the numbered motorway junctions across the UK

Motorway Junction

Local planning authorities may serve a Building Preservation Notice (BPN)  on the owner and occupier of a building  which is not listed, but which they consider is of special architectural or historic interest and is in danger of demolition or of alteration in such a way as to affect its character as a building of such interest (ref. 1).

If a BPN is served, an application to list the building must be made at the same time to Historic England.

A BPN takes effect immediately when it is served on the owner and occupier.

Once served a BPN is in force for a maximum of six months until either the Secretary of State (for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) lists the building or informs the authority that they do not intend to do so. If no decision (either to list or not to list) is taken in the six month period, the BPN will lapse.

Whilst the BPN is in force, the building is subject to the same protection as a listed building and any works to the building will require listed building consent. If works are carried out without listed building consent the local planning authority can take enforcement action or institute criminal proceedings.

Historic Building Preservation Notices

An electric vehicle charging station facility is represented as a point feature

Car Charging Point

OpenStreetMap publically sourced data for supermarkets in the UK. Also includes openly licensed datafrom national mapping agencies. In the UK, this includes Ordnance survey data.

Supermarket

NaPTAN is the national system for uniquely identifying points of access to public transport in England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain). It is a core component of the GB national transport information infrastructure and is used by a number of other UK standards and information systems. Every station, coach terminus, airport, ferry terminal, bus stop, etc., is allocated at least one identifier. A ferry terminal, which may also be known as a passenger terminal, cruise terminal, marine terminal or maritime passenger terminal, is a structure in a port where ferries and possibly cruise ships pick up and drop off passengers and vehicles

Ferry Terminal

OpenStreetMap publically sourced data for pharmacies in the UK. Also includes openly licensed datafrom national mapping agencies. In the UK, this includes Ordnance survey data.

Pharmacy 

OS MasterMap Buildings with Building Heights

OS MasterMap® Buildings (3D)

The part of a shore between high- and low-water marks, or between the water and cultivated or developed land.

Foreshore

Middle Output Area

This spatial dataset contains boundaries of designated Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) in Wales. The EC Habitats and Species Directive came into force in 1992 with the aim of conserving biodiversity by protecting a wide range of habitats and species of animals and plants. All SACs, together with Special Protection Areas (SPAs) designated under the EC Wild Birds Directive to protect rare and migratory species of birds, comprise a network of sites across the EU known as 'Natura 2000'. Most SACs in Wales were first proposed in the mid 1990s and were formally designated in 2004, but a small number of further proposed designations are on-going. SACs were originally mapped on paper but since around 2000 the boundary data have been captured digitally.The sites shown in this dataset are the SACs that have completed the full legal designation process

Special Area of Conservation

Greenspace

LEGACY - TO BE REMOVED
This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent and location of Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (2006) Section 41 habitats of principal importance. This inventory replaces Natural England's previous separate BAP habitat inventories: blanket bog, coastal &amp; floodplain grazing marsh, coastal sand dunes, coastal vegetated shingle, deciduous woodland, fens, lowland calcareous grassland, lowland dry acid grassland, lowland heathland, lowland meadows, lowland raised bog, limestone pavements, maritime cliff and slope, mudflats, purple moor grass &amp; rush pastures, reedbeds, saline lagoons, traditional orchards, undetermined grassland, upland calcareous grassland, upland hay meadows and upland heathland. These earlier inventories were produced from 1999 onwards and derived from habitat datasets collated from across the country, prioritising areas outside of designated sites.

Meadow

Bus Stop

OpenStreetMap publically sourced data for tourist symbols in the UK. Also includes openly licensed datafrom national mapping agencies. In the UK, this includes Ordnance survey data.

Tourist location

OpenStreetMap publically sourced data for Bars in the UK. Also includes openly licensed datafrom national mapping agencies. In the UK, this includes Ordnance survey data.

OpenStreetMap publically sourced data for hotels in the UK. Also includes openly licensed datafrom national mapping agencies. In the UK, this includes Ordnance survey data.

Hotel

Cinema

Linear dataset showing the extent of National Trails. For more information visit the National Trails website. National Trails are long distance walking, cycling and horse riding routes through the best landscapes in England and Wales. There are 15 National Trails. Walkers can enjoy them all, cyclists and horse riders can enjoy the Pennine Bridleway and the South Downs Way, as well as sections of the other Trails. In total, England and Wales have around 2,500 miles (4,000 Km) of National Trail. The England Coast Path will be the newest (and longest) National Trail when it is complete in 2020.
Not available for Scotland.

National Trail

The green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth. The idea is for a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted for the foreseeable future, maintaining an area where agriculture, forestry and outdoor leisure can be expected to prevail.

Greenbelt

The designation regime is set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. The list is maintained by Historic England and is available online through the National Heritage List for England. Applications for new entries and to remove or amend an existing entry are made to Historic England. It will investigate the merits of the application and make a recommendation to the Secretary of State (for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) who will make the decision. Grade I buildings are of exceptional interest. Just 2.5% of listed buildings are Grade I.

Listed Building

Nationally important sites and monuments are given legal protection by being placed on a Schedule of monuments.

Scheduled Monument

OpenStreetMap publically sourced data for leisure centres in the UK. Also includes openly licensed datafrom national mapping agencies. In the UK, this includes Ordnance survey data.

Airport

OS Zoomstack data showing B roads and some A roads connecting urban areas within regional boundaries

Regional Road

Historic England's Register of Historic Battlefields identifies 46 important English battlefields. Its purpose is to offer them protection through the planning system, and to promote a better understanding of their significance and public enjoyment. Registered sites are not necessarily open to the public: access, other than on public rights of way, will depend on local arrangements with owners.

Registered Battlefield

The Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) includes several layers of information. This dataset covers Flood Zone 2 and should not be used without Flood Zone 3. It is our best estimate of the areas of land at risk of flooding, when the presence of flood defences are ignored and covers land between Zone 3 and the extent of the flooding from rivers or the sea with a 1 in 1000 (0.1%) chance of flooding each year. This dataset also includes those areas defined in Flood Zone 3.

Flood Zone 2

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for Parishes in England and Wales, as at 31 December 2018.

Parish Boundary

Polygons showing 5 classes of agricultural land plus classifications for urban and non-agricultural land

Agricultural Land Classification

This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent and location of Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (2006) Section 41 habitats of principal importance. This inventory replaces Natural England's previous separate BAP habitat inventories: blanket bog, coastal &amp; floodplain grazing marsh, coastal sand dunes, coastal vegetated shingle, deciduous woodland, fens, lowland calcareous grassland, lowland dry acid grassland, lowland heathland, lowland meadows, lowland raised bog, limestone pavements, maritime cliff and slope, mudflats, purple moor grass &amp; rush pastures, reedbeds, saline lagoons, traditional orchards, undetermined grassland, upland calcareous grassland, upland hay meadows and upland heathland. These earlier inventories were produced from 1999 onwards and derived from habitat datasets collated from across the country, prioritising areas outside of designated sites.pH ranging from 4 to 5.5 overlying acid rocks or superficial deposits such as sands and
gravels

Dry acid grassland

Ordnance Survey data providing the site area for all uk educational establishments

Place of Education Site

A Byway Open to All Traffic (BOAT) is a highway over which the public have a right of way for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic but which is used by the public mainly for the purposes for which footpaths and bridleways are used (i.e. walking, cycling or horse riding)

Byway Open to All Traffic (BOAT)

The Indices of Deprivation 2015 provide a set of relative measures of deprivation for small areas (Lower-layer Super Output Areas*) across England, based on seven domains of deprivation. The domains were combined using the following weights to produce the overall Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD):  Income Deprivation (22.5%) ??? Employment Deprivation (22.5%) ??? Education, Skills and Training Deprivation (13.5%) ??? Health Deprivation and Disability (13.5%) ??? Crime (9.3%) ??? Barriers to Housing and Services (9.3%) ??? Living Environment Deprivation (9.3%).

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

In England and Wales a public footpath is a path on which the public have a legally protected right to travel on foot and in some areas public footpaths form a dense network of short paths

Footpath

View the real-time status of all submitted UK planning applications to see the vision for how an area will develop

Returns planning application's most recent status

status

Returns planning application's most recent consent

consent

Planning Applications

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.

Special Protection Area

A right of way is a path that anyone has the legal right to use on foot, and sometimes using other modes of transport. Legally, a public right of way is part of the Queen's highway and subject to the same protection in law as all other highways, including trunk roads

ByWay

Open Road

The Flood Map for Planning (Rivers and Sea) includes several layers of information. This dataset covers Flood Zone 3. It is our best estimate of the areas of land at risk of flooding, when the presence of flood defences are ignored and covers land with a 1 in 100 (1%) or greater chance of flooding each year from Rivers; or with a 1 in 200 (0.5%) or greater chance of flooding each year from the Sea. This dataset is designed to support flood risk assessments in line with Planning Practice Guidance; and raise awareness of the likelihood of flooding to encourage people living and working in areas prone to flooding to find out more and take appropriate action. The information provided is largely based on modelled data and is therefore indicative rather than specific. Locations may also be at risk from other sources of flooding, such as high groundwater levels, overland run off from heavy rain, or failure of infrastructure such as sewers and storm drains. The information indicates the flood risk to areas of land and is not sufficiently detailed to show whether an individual property is at risk of flooding, therefore properties may not always face the same chance of flooding as the areas that surround them. This is because we do not hold details about properties and their floor levels. Information on flood depth, speed or volume of flow is not included.

Flood Zone 3

OS OpenMap Local data showing areas of woodland in the UK.

Woodland

The part of the shore or beach which lies between the Low Water Mark and High Water Mark defined by the TidalBoundaries. The same condition may exist in non-contiguous off-shore areas

Tidal Boundary

View and query land parcel boundaries to get detailed insight into ownership, constraints, value and nearby information

Returns proprietorship ownership categories

proprietorship_category

HM Land Registry Boundaries

geom

polygon_id

The allocated title number for the property, unique to each property

title_no

proprietorship_name

The Unique Property Reference Number associated with the parcel

uprns

The category of ownership aggregated into Private, Company, Housing Associated or Local Authority

categories_aggregate

Place of Worship

A National Nature Reserve (NNR) is the land declared under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 or Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) as amended. The data does not include "proposed" sites. Supplied in England-wide and 100 x 100km tiles. Boundaries are mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap.

National Nature Reserve

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 Ramsar Convention) 1973. Data supplied has the status of "Listed". The data does not include "proposed" sites. Boundaries are mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap.

Ramsar Site

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 are not included in the Data set. SSSI are the finest sites for wildlife and natural features in England, supporting many characteristic, rare and endangered species, habitats and natural features. The data do not include "proposed" sites. Boundaries are generally mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap.

Site of Special Scientific Interest

Tidal Boundary - Low water mark 

Leisure Centre

This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent and location of Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (2006) Section 41 habitats of principal importance. This inventory replaces Natural England's previous separate BAP habitat inventories: blanket bog, coastal &amp; floodplain grazing marsh, coastal sand dunes, coastal vegetated shingle, deciduous woodland, fens, lowland calcareous grassland, lowland dry acid grassland, lowland heathland, lowland meadows, lowland raised bog, limestone pavements, maritime cliff and slope, mudflats, purple moor grass &amp; rush pastures, reedbeds, saline lagoons, traditional orchards, undetermined grassland, upland calcareous grassland, upland hay meadows and upland heathland. These earlier inventories were produced from 1999 onwards and derived from habitat datasets collated from across the country, prioritising areas outside of designated sites. Blanket bog or blanket mire, also known as featherbed bog, is an area of peatland, forming where there is a climate of high rainfall and a low level of evapotranspiration, allowing peat to develop not only in wet hollows but over large expanses of undulating ground

Blanket bog 

Quarry

Bank

Antiquity line

Indicates aquifer potential based on the distribution of groundwater through varying rock permeability 

625k Hydrogeology

OS OpenMap Local data showing single track railway lines in the UK

Railway Single Track

A feature representing all major river channels and tributaries

River

625k Bedrock Geology

Postal Area

Motorways, dual carriageways and A roads representing major routes between major urban areas

National Road

OS OpenMap Local data showing multi track railway lines in the UK

Railway Multi Track

Railway tunnels are represented as approximate centerlines of the railway that runs through the tunnel.

Railway Tunnel

OS OpenMap Local data showing electricity lines in the UK

Electricity line

A railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1???2 in). Most narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm (1 ft 11 5???8 in) and 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)

Railway Narrow Gauge

Local Nature Reserves (LNRs) are a statutory designation made under Section 21 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 by principal local authorities. Parish and Town Councils can also declare LNRs but they must have the powers to do so delegated to them by a principal local authority. LNRs are for people and wildlife. They are places with wildlife or geological features that are of special interest locally. They offer people opportunities to study or learn about nature or simply to enjoy it. They range from windswept coastal headlands, ancient woodlands and flower-rich meadows to former inner city railways, long abandoned landfill sites and industrial areas now re-colonised by wildlife. They are an impressive natural resource which makes an important contribution to England's biodiversity.

Local Nature Reserve

OpenStreetMap publically sourced data for Cafes in the UK. Also includes openly licensed datafrom national mapping agencies. In the UK, this includes Ordnance survey data.

Cafe

Information on all property sales in England and Wales that are sold for full market value and are lodged with us for registration

Getting Started

Authentication