RPA Registered Common Land (RCL) Layer
The Registered Common Land (RCL) Layer is an Administrative Boundary dataset which shows Rural Payments Agency land mapped as Registered Common Land. The RCL layer defines the extent of all registered common boundaries within England that are claimed on for subsidies and is better aligned to Ordnance Survey MasterMap and RPA parcel boundaries. RPA's implementation of the RCL layer has been used from 2015 onwards to support the payment of subsidies associated with commons and commons grazing rights; it is derived from the CRoW Registered Common Land dataset, and is continually updated to support payments. Attribution statement: © Crown Copyright
dataset
protocol: http
name: RPA_Registered_Common_Land_RCL_Layer.gdb.zip
description: RPA_Registered_Common_Land_RCL_Layer.gdb.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: RPA_Registered_Common_Land_RCL_Layer.geojson.zip
description: RPA_Registered_Common_Land_RCL_Layer.geojson.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: RPA_Registered_Common_Land_RCL_Layer.gpkg.zip
description: RPA_Registered_Common_Land_RCL_Layer.gpkg.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
protocol: http
name: RPA_Registered_Common_Land_RCL_Layer.shp.zip
description: RPA_Registered_Common_Land_RCL_Layer.shp.zip download on Defra Data Services Platform
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/rpa-registered-common-land-layer/wms
protocol: http
name: RPA Registered Common Land (RCL) Layer - Web Mapping Service (WMS)
description:
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/rpa-registered-common-land-layer/wfs
protocol: http
name: RPA Registered Common Land (RCL) Layer - Web Feature Service (WFS)
description:
https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/f57038f7-c0b4-47f8-8d7e-e56a373b1b90?download=true
protocol: http
name: RPA Registered Common Land (RCL) Layer - Download full extent
description: Download data by area of interest
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/rpa-registered-common-land-layer/ogc/features/v1
protocol: http
name: OGC API - Features service
description: OGC API - Features service
57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
environment
boundaries
farming
environment
boundaries
farming
Administrative units
publication
2008-06-01
Geographical names
publication
2008-06-01
-6.236
2.072
55.816
49.943
2015-01-01
2022-12-31
creation
2015-01-01
revision
2022-11-01
asNeeded
Created under the CRoW Act 2000, the Registered Common Land (RCL) data was originally digitised from DNF Landline by the contractors Geodata on behalf of the Countryside Agency. This RCL layer is the Rural Payments Agency’s implementation of the CRoW dataset and is better aligned to Ordnance Survey MasterMap and RPA registered parcel boundaries. It defines the extent of all registered common boundaries within England that are claimed on for subsidies; the RCL has been edited where subsidy agreements required changes to parcels within common boundaries.
Proprietary format | ESRI File based Geodatabase (GDB)
Open Government Licence
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Rural Payments Agency
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/rural-payments-agency
description: Rural Payments Agency Website
pointOfContact
Rural Payments Agency
pointOfContact
2025-05-19