UNITED KINGDOM · SCOTLAND · HABITATS · WOODLAND
Ancient Woodland Inventory (Scotland)
What this layer shows
Scotland's Ancient Woodland Inventory: 28,512 woods of ancient or long-established origin. Indicative like its English sibling: absence never proves a wood is recent.
Where the data comes from
WFS · ogc.nature.scot
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In these presets
Essentials
What is protected here: the statutory designations, across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus ancient woodland. This is what the map opens with, and what Default puts back. It is a starting point, not a limit: every other layer is one tap away in the list below.
Forestry
The checks behind a felling licence or a woodland creation application: ancient woodland and its revision, the National Forest Inventory, the live felling licence register, EWCO low-sensitivity land, the 1891–1914 historic woodland maps, wood pasture, deciduous priority habitat, and the statutory designations that constrain felling and planting: SSSI, SAC, SPA and Ramsar.
Renewables screening
The constraints a wind or solar scheme is screened against in Scotland and northern England: carbon-rich soils and deep peat, wild land, National Scenic Areas, the statutory designations and ancient woodland. A screening map, not a decision: NPF4 gives several of these explicit weight, and the rest is casework.
Other layers in this group
- Native Woodland Survey (Scotland)
- Caledonian Pinewood Inventory
- National Forest Inventory (Scotland)
- National Forest for Wales
- Traditional Orchards (Wales)
- Wood Pasture & Parkland (Wales)
- Historic Woodland 1891–1914
- Lost Historic Woodland
- Ancient Woodland
- Ancient Woodland (revised counties)
- Deciduous Woodland
- Traditional Orchards