HCC Spatial Data Metadata

Datasets held and published by the GIS Team.
These pages have been designed primarily for internal staff use; not all datasets are available to the public. Please see the individual pages for ownership and other information relevant to that data; and enquires should be directed to named contacts in the first instance.
For Third Party datasets included below, unless you are a member of HCC staff, support cannot be provided.

Hertfordshire County Council - Data Derived From OS Mapping

HCC Community Information

• The Council
• Libraries
• HCC Offices
• Newspaper Coverages
• Register Offices
• Settlements

HCC Adult Care Services

• Health and Community Services(Adult Care Services)
• HCS / Adult Care Services Area Services
• Older People, Physical Disability Local Team Areas
• Older People, Physical Disability Referral Management Team Areas
• ACS Flows - Older People

HCC Children's Services

• Family Centre Quadrants
• Family Centre Reporting Localities
• Admissions Designated Routes
• CoEd Parishes
• Delivering Special Provision Locally Areas
• Integrated Services for Learning Areas
• ITN Admissions
• Primary Plan Area
• Hertfordshire School locations
• Mental Health Support Teams (Schools)
• School Transport Points
• Secondary Plan Areas
• 3 Tier Schools

HCC Environment and Sustainable Growth

• Access
  • Common Land
  • Common Land Applications
  • Village Greens
  • Village Green Applications
• Air Quality
  • Clean Air Health Matrix
  • Diffusion Tube Locations
  • PM 2.5
  • No2 Annual Averages
  • AQMA Receptors
• Biodiversity
  • Hertfordshire Biodiversity Baseline
• Flood and Water Management
  • HCC Flood Incident Record
  • Ordinary Watercourses
  • Main Rivers
  • Declassified Watercourses
  • Surface Water Management Plan (SWMP) Hotspots
  • Catchment Reviews
  • Section 19 Flood Investigations
• Historic Environment
  • Hertfordshire Historic Environment Record
• Landscape
  • Crop Marks*
  • Landscape Character Areas
• Minerals and Waste Planning
  • Employment Land Area Search
  • Mineral Consultation Areas
  • Mineral Extraction Sites
  • Mineral Preferred Areas
  • Mineral Resource Blocks
  • Rail Aggregate Depot
  • Sand and Gravel Belt
  • Waste Site Allocations
• Rights of Way (ROW)
  • Rights of Way - Lines
  • Rights of Way - Permanent TRO
  • Rights of Way - Text
  • Rights of Way - Improvement Works
• Strategic Planning
  • Land Use 1993
  • Land Use 2008
  • Land Use 2012
  • Regional Parks
  • Section 106 Growth

HCC Highways

• Accidents 5yr
• Highways Assets
  • Bridges
  • Loop Detectors
  • Grips
  • Inspection Covers
  Interceptors
  • Level Crossings
  • Street Lighting
  • Pedestrian Crossings
  • Signs
  • Traffic Signals
• Highways Assets (Drainage)
  • Fords
  • Gullies
  • Static Water
• Community Partnership Assets
  • Safety Cameras
• Highways Maintenance
  • Grass Verges
• Highways Planning
  • Scheme Database
  • Section38 278*
  • Section 106 Highways
• Highways Networks
  • Highways Network (Roads and Paths) (including the Primary Route Network)
  • Road Sections with Traffic Calming Measures
  • Cycleways
  • Footway Hierarchy
• Highways Traffic and Transport
  • Congestion Hotspots
  • Place and Movement Network
  • Traffic Survey - Ad Hoc Traffic Survey
  • Programmed Bicycle Survey
  • Programmed Vehicle Survey
  • Urban and Rural Settlements
  • Traffic Regulation Orders
• Winter Maintenance
  • Salt bin
  • Gritting and Salting routes
  • Winter Resilient Network
• Highways Works
  • Highways Integrated Works Programme (IWP)
• Rail Assets
  • Level Crossings
  • Network Rail Tunnels

HCC Property

• HCC Property Assets Points
• HCC Property Assets
• HCC Terrier Maps
• HCC Rural Estates
• Floor Plans (Lines)
• Floor Plans (Rooms)

Hertfordshire Environmental Records Centre

Data maintained on behalf of the county council

• Ecosites
• Deleted Ecosites
• Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Sites (RIGS)
• Geosites
• Deleted Geosites
• Herts Ecological Networks
• Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves
• Local Wildlife Sites
• Deselected Wildlife Sites

District Designations

These datasets have been shared with HCC solely for internal use

• Air Quality Management Areas
• Conservation Areas (special architectural or historic interest)
• CIL (Community Infrastructure Levy) Zone
• Green Belt
• Neighbourhood Plans

Aerial Photography

Only viewable on internal systems

• Year 2000 Aerial Photography
• Year 2010 Aerial Photography (including DTM and Infrared)
• Year 201516 Aerial Photography
• Year 2020 - 22 Aerial Photography APGB (Including DTM and DSM)

Ordnance Survey - Licenced Data

• AddressBase
• AddressBase Premium
• Code-Point
• Code-Point with Polygons
• Historical OS Mapping (Landmark)
• VectorMap Local Raster (1:10,000)
• VectorMap Local Vector (1:10,000)
• 1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster
• 1:25,000 Scale Colour Raster
• 1:50,000 Scale Colour Raster
• OS MasterMap Highways (RAMI)
• OS Mastermap Paths
• OS MasterMap Topographic Layer

Ordnance Survey - Open Data

• Boundary Line Administrative Areas
  (Includes, GB, County, District, Ward, Parish, Electoral Divisions and Parliamentary Constituencies)
• Hertfordshire Civil Parishes 1840
• Hertfordshire Civil Parishes 1971
• Hertfordshire Urban and Rural Districts 1971
• 1:250,000 Scale Colour Raster
• OS Terrain 50
• Vector Map District (1:10,000)
• MiniScale

British Geological Society

Licenced for specific named users

• BGS Geology Data
• BGS Minerals Data

Environment Agency

• Flood Management Areas
  • Regional Flood and Coastal Committee Areas
  • EA Operational Areas
  • Water & Sewage Operational Areas
  • Bedfordshire & River Ivel Internal Drainage Board
• Flood Mapping
  • Areas Benefiting from Flood Defences
  • Flood Defences
  • Flood Storage Areas
  • Floodzone 2
  • Floodzone 3
  • Historic Flood
  • Groundwater (depth to) Contours
• Groundwater
  • Groundwater Vulnerability Zones at 100,000k
  • Source Protection Zones
  • Boreholes, Wells and Springs
• Historic Landfill
• National Receptor Database
• Rivers
  • Detailed River Network
  • Main Rivers
• Surface Water
  • Risk of Flooding from Surface Water

Forestry Commission

• Forestry Commission's National Inventory of Woods and Trees*

Historic England

• Battlefields
• Listed Buildings
• Registered Parks & Gardens
• Scheduled & Ancient Monuments

ONS - Office of National Statistics

• Built Up Areas
• Census 2001 Geographies
• Census 2011 Geographies
• Census 2021 Geographies

Natural England

• Access Land
• Special Areas of Conservation
• Special Protection Areas
• Ancient Woodland
• Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)
• Natural Character Areas
• Natural Areas
• Local Nature Reserves
• National Nature Reserves
• RAMSAR Sites
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest Units
• Sites of Special Scientific Interest Units Impact Risk Zones
• CRoW Act 2000
• Countryside Rights of Way Section 4 Conclusive Open Country
• Countryside Rights of Way Section 4 Conclusive Registered Common Land
• Countryside Rights of Way Section 15
• Countryside Rights of WaySection 16
• Environmental Stewardship Scheme

NHS

• Pharmacies
• GP Surgeries
• Hospitals
• Local Commissioning Groups *
• Clinical Commissioning Groups (and Clinical Commissioning Groups Herts Plus)
• Primary Care Trusts
• Sustainable Transformation Partnerships

Socio-Demographic Data - Acorn

• Acorn (Household)
• Acorn (Output Area)
• Acorn (Lower Super Output Area)
• Acorn Wellbeing

Woodland Trust

• Woodland Trust Accessable Woods*

Utilities

• Broadband Status
• Electiricty - National Grid
  • Cable Fibers
  • Overhead Lines
  • Substation Sites
  • Electricity Towers
• Gas
  • Cadent Gas Pipelines
• Water - Risk Management Authorities and Key Stakeholders
  • Bedfordshire and River Ivel Internal Drainage Board
  • Environment Agency Operational Areas
  • Water and Sewerage Company Operational Areas
  • Regional Flood and Coastal Commitee Areas

*Please contact: gis@hertfordshire.gov.uk