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LANDMAP is a unique national information system, devised by the former Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), allowing information about landscape in Wales to be collected and organised into a...

LANDMAP is a unique national information system, devised by the former Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), allowing information about landscape in Wales to be collected and organised into a...

Bathymetric data from Welsh lakes collated from documentary and electronic sources and re-formatted into a consistent and accessible form and structure. The data includes transformed raw...

The HABMAP project was set up in response to the need for better spatial awareness of habitat distributions in the Southern Irish Sea. This work produced habitat maps of the seabed using novel...

The CRoW Act provides for public access on foot to certain types of land, amends the law relating to public rights of way, increases measures for the management and protection for Sites of Special...

Dataset showing forests that comprised the freehold public forest estate dedicated by former Forestry Commission Wales (FCW), now Natural Resources Wales (NRW), under section 16 of the Countryside...

Designated sites in Wales include, but is not limited to, Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Special Protection Areas (SPA), Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) and Ramsar sites. These...

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) monitors bathing water sites identified under EC Bathing Waters Directive 2006/7/EC in Wales. Samples are taken throughout the bathing season from May to the end of...

GIS layers showing the abundance and distribution of seabirds in welsh waters. The datasets consists of the raw data showing observations of all seabirds and derived grids showing the density of...

Recorded Flood Extents shows areas that have been recorded to have flooded in the past from rivers, the sea or surface water. The records come from a number of evidence sources including Natural...

Water Framework Directive (WFD) River Basin Districts Cycle 1 is a spatial (polygon) dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework...

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Waterbodies Cycle 1 (2008 -2013) is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing Water Framework Directive (WFD) attributes that have been collated as defined for...

This dataset is now Static and won’t be updated. However, this dataset should still be used for information on permits that were historic before came under EPR regulations. This dataset should be...

Flood Alert Areas are geographical areas where it is possible for flooding to occur from rivers or the sea. A single Flood Alert Area may cover the floodplain within the Flood Warning Service...

This spatial Flood Warning Areas dataset are geographical areas where NRW expect flooding to occur and where NRW provide a Flood Warning Service. Flood Warning Areas generally contain properties...

Source Protection Zones [Merged] have been created as public facing boundaries where individual groundwater bodies within Source Protection Zones (SPZ) have been dissolved so only the outer...

Flood Storage Areas show those areas that act as a balancing reservoir, storage basin or balancing pond. Their purpose is to attenuate an incoming flood peak to a flow level that can be accepted...

The Emissions Inventory (EI) dataset collects data from regulated industrial activities and includes annual emissions to air and controlled waters, off-site transfers of waste and transfers of...

A recreation area feature which is managed and has a physical boundary (e.g. a car park, play area or building). There are a number of Asset Types: - Vehicle: Purpose built and installed NRW...

This is a spatial dataset containing the extent polygons for the Natural Resources Wales Operational Areas. This dataset shows the six main operational areas: - North East Wales - North West Wales...