0ac6249c-a6f2-4147-8ae9-50d576e85fc5 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:22:50 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Land Classification of Cumbria 1975 2015-12-03 publication 1975-01-01 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0ac6249c-a6f2-4147-8ae9-50d576e85fc5 10.5285/0ac6249c-a6f2-4147-8ae9-50d576e85fc5 doi: Bunce, R.G.H., Smith, R.S., Hill, M.O. (2015). Land Classification of Cumbria 1975. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0ac6249c-a6f2-4147-8ae9-50d576e85fc5 The Land Classification of Cumbria is a classification of the county of Cumbria (Great Britain) into a set of 16 environmental strata, termed land classes, to be used as a basis for ecological survey, originally developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) in 1975. The strata were created from the multivariate analysis of 150 environmental variables, including topographic data, geographical features and geology data. The Land Classification can be used to stratify a wide range of ecological and biogeographical surveys to improve the efficiency of collection, analysis and presentation of information derived from a sample. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0ac6249c-a6f2-4147-8ae9-50d576e85fc5 Bunce, R.G.H. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Smith, R.S. Cumbria County Council enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Hill, M.O. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Wood, C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned Bio-geographical Regions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Cumbria GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Mapping Environmental survey otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bunce, R.G.H., Smith, R.S., Hill, M.O. (2015). Land Classification of Cumbria 1975. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0ac6249c-a6f2-4147-8ae9-50d576e85fc5 vector 1000 English utf8 environment geoscientificInformation 1975-01-01 1975-12-31 -3.835 -2.319 53.988 55.034 ESRI Shapefile NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0ac6249c-a6f2-4147-8ae9-50d576e85fc5.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0ac6249c-a6f2-4147-8ae9-50d576e85fc5 Download the data Download a copy of this data download dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 The Cumbria Land Classification was created in 1975 at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, using methodologies described in the supporting information. The map was later digitised by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.