Identification

Title

Geological Conservation Review Sites

Abstract

The Geological Conservation Review (GCR) is the register of known nationally and internationally important Earth science (geological and geomorphological) sites in Great Britain. The GCR underpins designation of Earth science features in Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The majority of GCR sites, therefore, now have statutory protection through designation as notified features in SSSIs. In these cases the GCR site boundary indicates the extent of the Earth science interest within the SSSI. Some GCR sites, however, remain unnotified and are known as unnotified GCR sites. National Park Authorities and some Local Authorities treat these as candidate SSSIs and afford them the same protection as SSSIs. Some unnotified GCR sites are also Local Geodiversity Sites (LGS), and as such they are afforded levels of protection appropriate to locally important sites (though they are, themselves, considered to be of national or international importance). The remaining unnotified GCR sites have no statutory protection, although they are considered to be sites of national or international importance. Initially developed between 1977 and 1990, the GCR network is periodically updated and this dataset is subject to change. Boundaries of GCR sites are often not co-incident with SSSIs. Captured to old version of OSMM (the same one as SSSIs) so will need to be adjusted to PAI.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/download/GCR/shp

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: ESRI Shapefile (EPSG:27700)

function: download

https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/download/GCR/kml

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Google Earth KML 2.1 (EPSG:4326, simplified geometry)

function: download

https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/download/GCR/gml

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: GML 3.1.1 (zipped, EPSG:4258)

function: download

https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/download/GCR/mif

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: MapInfo MIF (EPSG:27700)

function: download

https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/dataset.jsp?code=GCR

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: NatureScot Natural Spaces

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

GCR

codeSpace

https://www.nature.scot

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

environment

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental protection

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2011-05-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Geology

Protected sites

Soil

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-9.220752

East bounding longitude

-0.778375

North bounding latitude

60.821833

South bounding latitude

54.547478

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2011-05-01

code identifying the extent

GB-SCT

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1991

End position

2014

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2022-03-02

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

Boundaries captured from paper maps to OSMM.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: (Copyright Scottish Natural Heritage) Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (year)

Limitations on public access

Available under an OS Open Data licence www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata/licence, Note that this data is available to view or download on SNH website see: www.snh.gov.uk/publications-data-and-research/snhi-information-service

Constraint set

Use constraints

no limitation

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Earth Science

organisation name

Scottish Natural Heritage

full postal address

Scottish Natural Heritage

INVERNESS

IV3 8NW

United Kingdom

telephone number

01463 725000

email address

rachel.wignall@nature.scot

responsible party role

principalInvestigator

Responsible party

contact position

Data Supply

organisation name

Scottish Natural Heritage

full postal address

Great Glen House

Inverness

IV3 8NW

telephone number

01463 725000

facsimile number

email address

data_supply@nature.scot

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Data Supply

organisation name

Scottish Natural Heritage

email address

data_supply@nature.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-03-02

Metadata language