The Wildscape Atlas was a projected spin-off product from Prof. Alice Coleman’s Second Land Utilisation Survey of Britain (https://maps.nls.uk/series/second-land-utilisation-survey), jointly edited by Coleman and Geoff Sinclair, her Chief Vegetation Surveyor. Within the field maps for the 2LUSB, the volunteer surveyors initially coloured areas of 'Wildscape' as yellow.
“Wildscape is mountain and moorland, heath and coast, bog and fen, all the areas that spring spontaneously to mind at the mention of nature conservation. In this country they are more often semi-natural than natural but nevertheless they are the closest to nature of all British landscapes” (Coleman, 1970). A separate survey of vegetation cover of these Wildscapes was completed by 1969 in England and 1974 in Wales which underpins the 'Wildscape Atlas'. This data has now been scanned and georeferenced and made available alongside the 2LUSB data on the National Library of Scotland. Attribution statement: Wildscape Atlas for England and Wales © Trustees of the Land Use Research Unit, 1969-1974
