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Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Scotland)
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What this layer shows
Scotland's ten Environmentally Sensitive Areas: the 1987 agri-environment designation whose boundaries still frame land management schemes.
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · maps.gov.scot
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Area (ha)
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Farm & land
Land grade, soils, nitrate rules and agreement land. England and Wales; Scotland has land capability and AECS that are not published as open services, and Northern Ireland has neither.