Vector maps of the 1960 Second Land Utilisation Survey in England and Wales, from 110 published maps

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This is a vector dataset representing land use in the 1960s across a selection of areas in England and Wales. The land use data is digitised from 110 published maps of the 1960s Second Land Utilisation Survey (2LUS) which was directed by Professor Alice Coleman. The published maps were digitised using a semi-automated supervised classification, followed by extensive post-processing to clean the vector dataset. The resulting dataset maps 11 land-use categories including “Arable”, “Broadleaved and mixed woodland”, “Coastal”, “Coniferous woodland”, “Grassland”, “Heath, moorland and rough land”, “Market gardening and orchards”, “Open space”, “Settlement”, “Unvegetated land”, “Water and Marsh”. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/03940756-afe9-428b-8c69-275e6b889251

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2025-11-20
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ridding, L.E., Wickenden, A.R., Orsler, Z., Rowland, C.S., Hampton, J.M., Mitchell, B., Edwardes, A., Mullin, K., Haughton, G., Thurston, N., Pola, I., Sinclair, G., Sinclair, M.R., Shaw, J., Pywell, R.F. (2025). Vector maps of the 1960 Second Land Utilisation Survey in England and Wales, from 110 published maps. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/03940756-afe9-428b-8c69-275e6b889251
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03940756-afe9-428b-8c69-275e6b889251
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Latitude: 55.812° to °
Longitude: -6.452° to 1.768°
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2025-09-24 (publication)
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(pointOfContact, author, owner, custodian, publisher); Wood PLC (author); Environment Information Services (author); King's College (author)
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