Metadata

Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England)

Title

Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England)

Alternative Title

SSSI

Dataset Language

eng

Abstract

A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is the land notified as an SSSI under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981), as amended.
Sites notified under the 1949 Act only are not included in the Data set. SSSI are the finest sites for wildlife and natural features in England, supporting many characteristic, rare and endangered species, habitats and natural features.
The data do not include "proposed" sites. Boundaries are generally mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap. Attribution statement:
© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Topic Category

environment

Keyword

Keyword Value: Environment, LandUse, OpenData
Originating Controlled Vocabulary: GEMET - INSPIRE Spatial Data Themes (GEMET)
Originating Controlled Vocabulary Citation: 2008-01-01

Temporal Extent

from -1970-01-01 to -2099-12-31

Dataset Reference Date

Date:2017-09-14 -2021-04-15
Date Type: publication, revision

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.

IPR:
Product:
Date:

Extent

Nationa

Vertical Extent

-

Spatial Reference System

OSGB36 - National Grid of Great Britain

Spatial Resolution

1m

Resource Locator

Resource locator https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/sites-of-special-scientific-interest-england
protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
name: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page
description: ArcGIS Open Dataset record page
https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=NE/SitesOfSpecialScientificInterestEngland&Mode=spatial
protocol: DSP:ESRI
name: SitesOfSpecialScientificInterestEngland_Download
description: Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England) Download
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/sites-of-special-scientific-interest-england/wfs
protocol: WFS
name: SitesOfSpecialScientificInterestEngland_WFS
description: Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England) WFS
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/sites-of-special-scientific-interest-england/wms
protocol: WMS
name: SitesOfSpecialScientificInterestEngland_WMS
description: Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England) WMS <\dd>

Layerfile for use by HCC internal staff:\\geodata\NatEng\SSSI

Format

ESRI/SDE

Responsible Organisation

Natural England
Email :data.services@naturalengland.org.uk
Role: Resource Provider, Custodian, Owner, Originator, Point of Contact, Processor, Publisher, Author.

Limitations on Public Access

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

Use Constraints

Open Government Licence

This data is supplied without guarantee or any warranty as to the accuracy, currency or completeness, and is provided as is, excluding any warranties of any
kind, either express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law,including (but not limited to) satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose.

Additional information

Resource Identifier

Conformity

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
notEvaluated
Re-designing HCC Data for INSPIRE not done

Equivalent scale

Bounding box

-6.41736, 2.05827, 55.7447, 49.8625

Quality scope

Dataset

Spatial representation type

vector

Character encoding

UTF-8

Data quality

-

Maintenance information

maintenance and update frequency:Monthly

update scope:

maintenance note:

Metadata update date

-2021-07

Metadata Language

English

Metadata Point of Contact

Natural England
Email :data.services@naturalengland.org.uk
Role: Resource Provider, Custodian, Owner, Originator, Point of Contact, Processor, Publisher, Author.

Resource Type

6 Dataset

File Identifier

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Parent identifier

-

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Review date

-

Attributes

Name	Long Name	Description

OSGB36 National Grid Bounding Coordinates

West: 486000 East: 552000 North: 245000 South: 189000

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