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Ancient Woodland

Introduction

"For many species of animal and plant, ancient woodland sites provide the sole habitat, and for many others, conditions on these sites are much more suitable than those on other sites." (Wikipedia)

The Woodland Trust is a charity dedicated to preserving ancient woodland.

Some areas of woodland are already indicated in OpenStreetMap.

OpenLayers

To include them in this app I have created a layer group from the available datasets.

Ancient Woodland (England)
Attribution: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2023.
This exhaustive Handbook documents the project.

Ancient Woodland Inventory (Scotland)
Attribution: none.

Ancient Woodland Inventory 2021 (NRW)
Attribution: Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100019741. Crown Copyright and Database Right.

For an example of this data go to https://liveservices.info/live/apps/ol/?AWT and select the ANCIENT WOODLAND overlay. Select OSM greyscale and/or increase opacity to highlight the woodland features. It's a Mapping-only overlay because there are many features, and many without names. But you can still click on the map to get details of the feature(s) at a particular location.

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