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Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (England)

Summary

AONBs are designated areas where protection is afforded to protect and manage the areas for visitors and local residents. Under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, Natural England has the power to designate areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs) in England that are outside national parks and that are considered to have such natural beauty it is desirable they are conserved and enhanced; issue a variation order to change an existing AONB boundary. It also holds a duty to give advice on developments taking place in an AONB; take into account the conservation and enhancement of AONBs in its work.

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Attribution statement

Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Technical information

Update frequency

notPlanned

Lineage

All data is captured to the Ordnance Survey National Grid sometimes called the British National Grid. OS MasterMap Topographic Layer – produced and supplied by Ordnance Survey from data at 1:1250, 1:2500 and 1:10000 surveying and mapping standards - is used as the primary source. Other sources – acquired internally and from external suppliers - may include aerial imagery at resolutions ranging from 25cm to 2m, Ordnance Survey 1:10000 raster images, historical OS mapping, charts and chart data from UK Hydrographic Office and other sources, scanned images of paper designation mapping (mostly originally produced at 1:10560 or 1:10000 scales), GPS and other surveyed data, and absolute coordinates. The data was first captured against an August 2002 cut of OS MasterMap Topography. Natural England has successfully uploaded an up-to-date version of OS MasterMap Topographic Layer. However, we have not yet updated our designated data holding to this new version of MasterMap. This should occur in the near future, when we will simultaneously apply positional accuracy improvement (PAI) to our data.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 49.8625 to 55.7447
  • Longitude from: -6.41736 to 2.05827
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

0c1ea47f-3c79-47f0-b0ed-094e0a136971


Published by

Natural England


Dataset reference dates

Creation date

31 December 1949

Revision date

15 May 2020

Publication date

11 May 2015

Period

  • From: 31 December 1949
  • To: 01 January 2099

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Data and Supporting Information
Data services and download by area of interestLinkAction
Download data by area of interestN/AOpen link
ArcGIS Open Dataset record pageOpen link
AreasOfOutstandingNaturalBeautyEngland_WMSCopy linkPreview
AreasOfOutstandingNaturalBeautyEngland_WFSCopy linkN/A