58139ce6-63f9-4444-9f77-fc7b5dcc00d8 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 2026-01-29T09:23:08 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Unified peat map for Wales 2020-06-12 publication 2016-06-01 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/58139ce6-63f9-4444-9f77-fc7b5dcc00d8 10.5285/58139ce6-63f9-4444-9f77-fc7b5dcc00d8 doi: Evans, C.D., Scholefield, P., Rawlins, B., Grebby, S., Jones, P., Williamson, J.M. (2020). Unified peat map for Wales. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/58139ce6-63f9-4444-9f77-fc7b5dcc00d8 An updated map of peat extent for Wales has been developed by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, with support from the British Geological Survey and Natural Resources Wales in support of the Glastir Monitoring & Evaluation Programme, commissioned by the Welsh Government. This map represents a considerable advance on previous attempts to map the deep peat resource of Wales and yields a significantly larger estimate than that based on the Soil Survey of England and Wales alone. This new map highlights the wide distribution of peatlands across much of Wales, with large areas of upland blanket bog in North east and North-central Wales (Migneint, Berwyn) and central Wales (Cambrian Mountains), as well as smaller areas of upland peat in and around the Brecon Beacons National Park. The new unified map also provides a much more detailed picture of the distribution of deep peat in the lowlands, many areas of which retain significant biodiversity interest. The Glastir Monitoring & Evaluation Programme was set up by the Welsh Government in 2013 to monitor the effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme on the environment and ran from 2013 to 2016. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/58139ce6-63f9-4444-9f77-fc7b5dcc00d8 Evans, C.D. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Scholefield, P. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2974-6431 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Rawlins, B. British Geological Survey EMAIL NOT PROVIDED author Grebby, S. British Geological Survey stephen.grebby@nottingham.ac.uk author Jones, P. Natural Resources Wales Peter.S.Jones@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk author Williamson, J.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8216-5885 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Evans, 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 Welsh Government EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication peat soil GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Environmental survey Mapping Soil Wales otherRestrictions Registration is required to access this data otherRestrictions Unified peat map for Wales - licence otherRestrictions Any product derived from or incorporating the Data must be accompanied by an acknowledgment of the source by using the following statements: otherRestrictions “© Hawlfraint y Goron: Llywodraeth Cymru” or “© Crown copyright: Welsh Government”; Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. otherRestrictions Derived in part from British Geological Survey geology data 1:50,000 scale. BGS © UKRI otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Evans, C.D., Scholefield, P., Rawlins, B., Grebby, S., Jones, P., Williamson, J.M. (2020). Unified peat map for Wales. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/58139ce6-63f9-4444-9f77-fc7b5dcc00d8 vector 10000 English utf8 environment -5.473 -2.654 51.375 53.434 Shapefile NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/58139ce6-63f9-4444-9f77-fc7b5dcc00d8 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/58139ce6-63f9-4444-9f77-fc7b5dcc00d8.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information 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 following datasets were combined to form a ‘unified’ peat map data set: i) Areas mapped as peat in the British Geological Survey (BGS) superficial geology map (1:50 000) ii) Soil mapping derived from the recent digital capture of Forestry Commission (FC) Wales paper survey records by the FC Mapping and Geodata Unit, with soil codes 8a to 14w inclusive being taken as indicative of peats > 45 cm thickness iii) The boundary of deep (>0.5 m) peat determined during the ground based survey of lowland peatland sites included in the Countryside Commission for Wales (CCW)/Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Lowland Peatland Survey of Wales programme iv) Habitat polygons indicative of deep (=/>0.5 m) peat presence (i.e. all E class with the exception of E2) sourced from the CCW/NRW Habitat Survey of Wales (Phase I) (Blackstock et al., 2010). These data sets provide information on the distribution of peat at least 45 cm thick. The individual layers were joined sequentially using the UNION function in ArcMap Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software (ESRI) to create a final multipart polygon shapefile.