Unified peat map for Wales
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“© Hawlfraint y Goron: Llywodraeth Cymru” or “© Crown copyright: Welsh Government”; Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved.
Derived in part from British Geological Survey geology data 1:50,000 scale. BGS © UKRI
Unified peat map for Wales - licence
Download the dataThis map represents a considerable advance on previous attempts to map the deep peat resource of Wales and yields a significantly larger estimate than that based on the Soil Survey of England and Wales alone. This new map highlights the wide distribution of peatlands across much of Wales, with large areas of upland blanket bog in North east and North-central Wales (Migneint, Berwyn) and central Wales (Cambrian Mountains), as well as smaller areas of upland peat in and around the Brecon Beacons National Park. The new unified map also provides a much more detailed picture of the distribution of deep peat in the lowlands, many areas of which retain significant biodiversity interest.
The Glastir Monitoring & Evaluation Programme was set up by the Welsh Government in 2013 to monitor the effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme on the environment and ran from 2013 to 2016.
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Shapefile
Spatial information
Provenance & quality
i) Areas mapped as peat in the British Geological Survey (BGS) superficial geology map (1:50 000)
ii) Soil mapping derived from the recent digital capture of Forestry Commission (FC) Wales paper survey records by the FC Mapping and Geodata Unit, with soil codes 8a to 14w inclusive being taken as indicative of peats > 45 cm thickness
iii) The boundary of deep (>0.5 m) peat determined during the ground based survey of lowland peatland sites included in the Countryside Commission for Wales (CCW)/Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Lowland Peatland Survey of Wales programme
iv) Habitat polygons indicative of deep (=/>0.5 m) peat presence (i.e. all E class with the exception of E2) sourced from the CCW/NRW Habitat Survey of Wales (Phase I) (Blackstock et al., 2010).
These data sets provide information on the distribution of peat at least 45 cm thick. The individual layers were joined sequentially using the UNION function in ArcMap Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software (ESRI) to create a final multipart polygon shapefile.
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Unified peat map for Wales - licence
Any product derived from or incorporating the Data must be accompanied by an acknowledgment of the source by using the following statements:
“© Hawlfraint y Goron: Llywodraeth Cymru” or “© Crown copyright: Welsh Government”; Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved.
Derived in part from British Geological Survey geology data 1:50,000 scale. BGS © UKRI
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Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales, 2013-2016
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Bangor
Gwynedd
LL57 2UW
UNITED KINGDOM
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2974-6431