RPA Parcel Points (England)

Published by:: Rural Payments Agency
Last updated:: 26 August 2025
Topic:: Not added
Licence:: Other Licence
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Summary

There are approximately 2.6 million agricultural land parcels in England, and the Parcel Points (England) point dataset represents the approximate centres, or centroids of these parcels. The number of agricultural parcels varies over time as fields are split or joined consequently creating new fields with new centroids. Some parcels may be sold for development and are no longer available for agricultural use, occasionally land that was previously developed may return to agriculture, e.g. disused airfields.

Parcel Points is a simple point dataset that uses the centres of agricultural parcels attributed only with the parcel reference ID. Parcel points are categorised according to county and are available as England-wide coverage too.

Users can use the data as supplied or attach their own attributes. When viewed overlying other publicly available data, e.g. satellite imagery (Google earth), OS open data, OpenStreetMap, etc. that may feature agricultural land the points provide a useful reference point to identify the approximate centre of agricultural parcels.

Parcel Points uses the Open Government Licence v3.0 as used by other publicly accessible data on the Defra Data Services Platform and will be updated every 6 months.

Coverage will be for agricultural land parcels in England only.

Users should be aware that client-side constraints associated WFS and OGC API, such as maximum feature limits, may affect the loading and display of parcel points. Parcel Points WMS are not affected to the same extent. Attribution statement: © Rural Payments Agency

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Download OGC API - Features service , Format: N/A, Dataset: RPA Parcel Points (England)	N/A	26 August 2025	Not available
Download RPAParcelPointsEngland_WFS , Format: N/A, Dataset: RPA Parcel Points (England)	N/A	26 August 2025	Not available
Download RPAParcelPointsEngland_WMS , Format: N/A, Dataset: RPA Parcel Points (England)	N/A	26 August 2025	Not available
Download RPAParcelPointsEngland_Download , Format: N/A, Dataset: RPA Parcel Points (England)	N/A	26 August 2025	Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk: 2025-07-25
Access contraints: There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Harvest GUID: 93a2433d-054a-484c-aec4-4e2ce9d7f2a9
Extent: Latitude: 55.816° to °; Longitude: -6.236° to 2.072°
Spatial reference system: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date: 2023-07-03 (creation); 2025-04-09 (revision)
Frequency of update: biannually
Responsible party: Rural Payments Agency (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
Metadata language: eng
Source Metadata: XML; HTML

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