Date (Publication)

2025-07-21

Citation identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f

Citation identifier

doi: / 10.5285/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f

Other citation details

Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (UK land cover statistics). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Marston, C.G.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Point of contact
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Rowland, C.S.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Marston, C.G.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	O'Neil, A.W.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology		enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Owner
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Publisher

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Land Cover

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• land cover
• map
• habitat

GeoNames

• England
• Scotland
• Wales
• Hartlepool
• Norfolk
• Rhondda Cynon Taf

Keywords

• Land cover
• Mapping

• Northern Ireland

• Middlesbrough

• Redcar and Cleveland

• Stockton-on-Tees

• Darlington

• Halton

• Warrington

• Blackburn with Darwen

• Blackpool

• Kingston upon Hull

• East Riding of Yorkshire

• North East Lincolnshire

• North Lincolnshire

• York

• Derby

• Leicester

• Rutland

• Nottingham

• Herefordshire

• Telford and Wrekin

• Stoke-on-Trent

• Bath and North East Somerset

• Bristol, City of

• North Somerset

• South Gloucestershire

• Plymouth

• Torbay

• Swindon

• Peterborough

• Luton

• Southend-on-Sea

• Thurrock

• Medway

• Bracknell Forest

• West Berkshire

• Reading

• Slough

• Windsor and Maidenhead

• Wokingham

• Milton Keynes

• Brighton and Hove

• Portsmouth

• Southampton

• Isle of Wight

• County Durham

• Cheshire East

• Cheshire West and Chester

• Shropshire

• Cornwall

• Isles of Scilly

• Wiltshire

• Bedford

• Central Bedfordshire

• Northumberland

• Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

• Dorset

• Buckinghamshire

• North Northamptonshire

• West Northamptonshire

• Cumberland

• Westmorland and Furness

• North Yorkshire

• Somerset

• Bolton

• Bury

• Manchester

• Oldham

• Rochdale

• Salford

• Stockport

• Tameside

• Trafford

• Wigan

• Knowsley

• Liverpool

• St. Helens

• Sefton

• Wirral

• Barnsley

• Doncaster

• Rotherham

• Sheffield

• Newcastle upon Tyne

• North Tyneside

• South Tyneside

• Sunderland

• Birmingham

• Coventry

• Dudley

• Sandwell

• Solihull

• Walsall

• Wolverhampton

• Bradford

• Calderdale

• Kirklees

• Leeds

• Wakefield

• Gateshead

• City of London

• Barking and Dagenham

• Barnet

• Bexley

• Brent

• Bromley

• Camden

• Croydon

• Ealing

• Enfield

• Greenwich

• Hackney

• Hammersmith and Fulham

• Haringey

• Harrow

• Havering

• Hillingdon

• Hounslow

• Islington

• Kensington and Chelsea

• Kingston upon Thames

• Lambeth

• Lewisham

• Merton

• Newham

• Redbridge

• Richmond upon Thames

• Southwark

• Sutton

• Tower Hamlets

• Waltham Forest

• Wandsworth

• Westminster

• Cambridgeshire

• Derbyshire

• Devon

• East Sussex

• Essex

• Gloucestershire

• Hampshire

• Hertfordshire

• Kent

• Lancashire

• Leicestershire

• Lincolnshire

• Nottinghamshire

• Oxfordshire

• Staffordshire

• Suffolk

• Surrey

• Warwickshire

• West Sussex

• Worcestershire

• Antrim and Newtownabbey

• Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

• Belfast

• Causeway Coast and Glens

• Derry City and Strabane

• Fermanagh and Omagh

• Lisburn and Castlereagh

• Mid and East Antrim

• Mid Ulster

• Newry, Mourne and Down

• Ards and North Down

• Clackmannanshire

• Dumfries and Galloway

• East Ayrshire

• East Lothian

• East Renfrewshire

• Na h-Eileanan Siar

• Falkirk

• Highland

• Inverclyde

• Midlothian

• Moray

• North Ayrshire

• Orkney Islands

• Scottish Borders

• Shetland Islands

• South Ayrshire

• South Lanarkshire

• Stirling

• Aberdeen City

• Aberdeenshire

• Argyll and Bute

• City of Edinburgh

• Renfrewshire

• West Dunbartonshire

• West Lothian

• Angus

• Dundee City

• East Dunbartonshire

• Fife

• Perth and Kinross

• Glasgow City

• North Lanarkshire

• Isle of Anglesey

• Gwynedd

• Conwy

• Denbighshire

• Flintshire

• Wrexham

• Ceredigion

• Pembrokeshire

• Carmarthenshire

• Swansea

• Neath Port Talbot

• Bridgend

• Vale of Glamorgan

• Cardiff

• Caerphilly

• Blaenau Gwent

• Torfaen

• Monmouthshire

• Newport

• Powys

• Merthyr Tydfil

• North East

• North West

• Yorkshire and The Humber

• East Midlands

• West Midlands

• East of England

• London

• South East

• South West

• Biodiversity Action Plan

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

© UKCEH

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (UK land cover statistics). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f

Spatial representation type

Vector

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Distance

10  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment

Begin date

2024-01-01

End date

2024-12-31

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Distribution format

Name	Version
Comma-separated values (CSV)
GeoPackage

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f	Download the data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f.zip	Supporting information

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

The Land Cover Map 2024 (UK land cover statistics) is a data set that summarises the land cover extent, as given by LCM2024, for a range of geographical units. The land cover statistics are provided as tabular data in comma separated value (.csv) files, and as spatial data in Geopackage files (.gpkg files) for use in geospatial software. The Land Cover Map 2024 (UK land cover statistics) data set is derived from the Land Cover Map 2024 (10 m classified pixels) data sets for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as they provide the highest level of spatial data of the Land Cover Map data products. Summary statistics are calculated at country, county, and regional (England only) levels using the Office for National Statistics boundaries areas to allow comparison with other data sources (further details are available from the product documentation). All regions include land cover extents in m2 and percentage areas. The county and Unified Authority areas include area in hectares, whilst the larger geographies, regions and countries, give values in km2.

Metadata

File identifier

0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

8859 Part 1

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp

2025-11-21T09:50:30

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Point of contact