Provisional Agricultural Land Classification (ALC)
Provisional ALC
Provisional Agricultural Land Classification Grade. Agricultural land classified into five grades. Grade one is best quality and grade five is poorest quality. A number of consistent criteria used for assessment which include climate (temperature, rainfall, aspect, exposure, frost risk), site (gradient, micro-relief, flood risk) and soil (depth, structure, texture, chemicals, stoniness) for England only. Digitised from the published 1:250,000 map which was in turn compiled from the 1 inch to the mile maps. Attribution statement: Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].
dataset
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/agricultural-land-classification-provisional-england/wfs
protocol: WFS
name: AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland_WFS
description: Agricultural Land Classification Provisional (England) WFS
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/agricultural-land-classification-provisional-england/wms
protocol: WMS
name: AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland_WMS
description: Agricultural Land Classification Provisional (England) WMS
protocol: DSP:ESRI
name: AgriculturalLandClassificationProvisionalEngland_Download
description: Agricultural Land Classification Provisional (England) Download
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
name: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page
description: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page
57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
environment
Land use
publication
2008-06-01
OpenData
NEbatch4
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1.76896
55.8117
49.955400000000004
http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england
2007-05-15
2099-12-31
creation
2007-05-15
revision
2019-02-15
notPlanned
A number of consistent criteria used for assessment which include climate (temperature, rainfall, aspect, exposure, frost risk), site (gradient, micro-relief, flood risk) and soil (depth, structure, texture, chemicals, stoniness) for England only. Digitised from the published 1:250,000 map which was in turn compiled from the 1 inch to the mile maps. After the introduction of the ALC system in 1966 the whole of England and Wales was mapped from reconnaissance field surveys, to provide general strategic guidance on land quality or planners. This Provisional Series of maps was published on an Ordnance Survey base at a scale of One Inch to One Mile in the period 1967 to 1974. These maps are not sufficiently accurate for use in assessment of individual fields or development sites, and should not be used other than as general guidance. They show only five grades: their preparation receded the subdivision of Grade 3 and the refinement of criteria, which occurred after 1976. These are more appropriate for the strategic use originally intended.
Open format | Shapefile (SHP)
10.2.2
Open Government Licence
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Natural England
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pointOfContact
Natural England
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