Identification

Title

National Forest Estate Statutory Boundary for Forest of Dean

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

The Statutory Forest of Dean has existed since Norman times. Originally an area reserved for the King and his chosen few to hunt within, the Statutory Forest became defined as an area where the soil, timber or herbage belonged to the Crown and was controlled with the imposition of harsh Forest Laws. Within these forests, none could reside or own land and the rights at Common Law of the local inhabitants were severely restricted. When last legally defined in 1833, this was still assumed with some caveats, but the subsequent formalisation of encroachments and continuing sales of land mean today some 20% of land within the Statutory Forest is privately owned land – the remainder is managed as the Crown Forest Estate by the Forestry Commission. Attribution Statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name:

description: External version on Defra Data Services Platform

Unique resource identifier

code

a1fdf1f9-c208-4b1d-8c64-2ab00476df18

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

England

Forest of Dean

Woodland

Species

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and biotopes

Forestry

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

living environment

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-2.710228787337107

East bounding longitude

-2.426397833467355

North bounding latitude

51.87418881498398

South bounding latitude

51.65525786130264

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2015-09-03

End position

2015-09-03

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2000-04-01

date type

revision

effective date

2015-09-03

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

This boundary was digitised by Estates staff in the Forest of Dean some years ago, modified recently in format only.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

1998

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

web address

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

description: Forestry Commission Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-08-28

Metadata language

eng