Introduction

The England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database is designed to provide technical evidence on the Green Infrastructure of England as an open data product under Open Government License (OGL) conditions.

The England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database aims to be:

• A publicly accessible data, analysis and mapping resource.
• A resource providing a nationally consistent approach to Green Infrastructure spatial evidence.
• A resource capable of providing information at multiple scales from England wide, Upper and Lower Tier Local Authority, Middle Super Output Area (MSOA) and Lower Super Output Area (LSOA).
• A resource that can be used to provide evidence to inform a variety of national to local planning, strategy and targeting exercises involving Green Infrastructure.
• A baseline evidence resource providing a consistent level of data and analysis across England capable of being adapted and/or supplemented with additional and/or local data as required by the end user.

This User Guide provides information on the content of Version 2.1 as presented on the England Green Infrastructure Standards website.

The database will be maintained and updated periodically. Periodic updates will lead to the issue of an updated database which will be identified by a new version number.

Please note that all population data used in the V 2.1 mapping is based on Census 2021 unless otherwise stated.

Section 1.1 - Statement of copyright

Use of Map Image, Printed Map or Data

An individual may use a map image or copy of a printed map from the England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database under the conditions of the Open Government License.

Open Government Licence (nationalarchives.gov.uk)

Available data for the England Green Infrastructure mapping is available to download under the Open Government Licence here: data.gov.uk

Copyright Statement for maps printed from the England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database.

Map produced from the England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database on [date]. © Crown Copyright and database rights [year]. Ordnance Survey 100022861.

Please note that the England Green Infrastructure mapping uses data from sources that may be updated more frequently than the Green Infrastructure database itself.

All data in the maps was that available at the time of creation. Where the most up-to-date data is required, the most recent version of the data should be obtained from the data owner directly.

Full copyright listing

• © Natural England 2024.
• Contains, or is derived from, information supplied by Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey 100022021.
• © Forestry Commission 2024.
• © Environment Agency 2024.
• © Historic England 2024.
• © Office for National Statistics 2024
• © Sport England.
• © Defra (2024)
• © National Trust.
• Contains data supplied by © Cheshire Wildlife Trust, Derbyshire Biological Records Centre © Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. Contains data owned and managed by © Kent Wildlife Trust, for any queries contact gis@kentwildlfie.org.uk . Contains data supplied by Essex Wildlife Trust. © BBWOT
• © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2024. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © NERC (CEH). Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2015. Land & Property Services © Crown copyright and database right.
• © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2042. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH) © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 Ordnance Survey 100024198
• © Office for National Statistics (2024).
• IMD data © Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (2019).
• © Sustrans (2024).
• © Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (pollutant removal data (2017), Landcover map 2020 © CEH (2020).
• Met Office © 2024.
• © Climate Just (2024).

Public Rights of Way data has been derived from the following Highway Authorities.

Barry Cornellus has developed a useful website that provides access to Public Rights of Way data from 123 Highway Authorities across England and Wales. "rowmaps" can be accessed at (Maps, KML and GPX showing rights of way (rowmaps.com) ) with information on Local Authority PRoW data and further links to individual sites.

For Version 2.1, Public Rights of Way data was sourced from the following Highway Authorities. All data was sourced from Highways Authorities between September 2023 and February 2024. If the most up to date Public Rights of Way data is required, the most recent Highway Authority data should be sought directly.

• Barnsley - © Barnsley Borough Council (2024)
• Bath and North East Somerset – © Bath and North East Somerset Council (2024)
• Bedford – © Bedford District Council (2024)
• Bexley – © Bexley Borough Council (2024)
• Birmingham – © Birmingham City Council (2024)
• Blackburn with Darwen – © Blackburn and Darwen Borough Council (2024)
• Blackpool – © Blackpool District Council (2024)
• Bolton – © Bolton Council (2024)
• Bournemouth – © Bournemouth Borough Council (2024)
• Bracknell Forest – © Bracknell Forest Council (2024)
• Bradford – © Bradford Metropolitan District Council (2024)
• Brent – © Brent Council (2024)
• City of Brighton and Hove – © Brighton and Hove City Council (2024)
• City of Bristol – © Bristol City Council (2024)
• Coventry – © Coventry City Council (2024)
• Bromley – © London Borough of Bromley (2024)
• Buckinghamshire – © Buckinghamshire County Council (2024)
• Bury – © Bury Council (2024)
• Calderdale – © Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council (2024)
• Cambridgeshire – © Cambridgeshire County Council (2024)
• Central Bedfordshire – © Central Bedfordshire Council (2024)
• Cheshire East – © Cheshire East Council (2024)
• Cheshire West and Chester – © Cheshire West and Chester Council (2024)
• Cornwall – © Cornwall Council (2024)
• Cumbria – © Cumbria County Council (2024)
• Darlington – © Darlington Borough Council (2024)
• Derbyshire – © Derbyshire County Council (2024)
• Devon – © Devon County Council (2024)
• Doncaster – © Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (2024)
• Dorset – © Dorset County Council (2024)
• Dudley – © Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (2024)
• Durham – © Durham County Council (2024)
• East Riding of Yorkshire – © East Riding of Yorkshire Council (2024)
• East Sussex – © East Sussex County Council (2024)
• Ealing – © Ealing council (2024)
• Essex – © Essex County Council (2024)
• Gateshead – © Gateshead Council (2024)
• Gloucestershire – © Gloucestershire County Council (2024)
• Hampshire – © Hampshire County Council (2024)
• Hartlepool – ©Hartlepool Borough Council (2024)
• Havering – © London Borough of Havering (2024)
• Herefordshire – © Herefordshire County Council (2024)
• Hertfordshire – © Hertfordshire County Council (2024)
• City of Kingston upon Hull – © Hull City Council (2024)
• Isle of Wight – © Isle of Wight Council (2024)
• Kent – © Kent County Council (2024)
• Kirklees – © Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council (2024)
• Knowsley – © Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council (2024)
• Lake District National Park - © Lake District National Park Authority (2024)
• Lancashire – Lancashire County Council (2024)
• Leeds – © Leeds City Council (2021)
• City of Leicester © Leicester City Council (2024)
• Leicestershire – © Leicestershire County Council (2024)
• Lincolnshire – © Lincolnshire County Council (2024)
• Manchester – © Manchester City Council (2024)
• Medway – © Medway Council (2024)
• Milton Keynes – © Milton Keynes City Council (2024)
• Norfolk – © Norfolk County Council (2024)
• North Lincolnshire – © North Lincolnshire Council (2024)
• North Somerset – © North Somerset Council (2024)
• North Yorkshire – © North Yorkshire Council (2024)
• Northamptonshire – © Northamptonshire County Council (2024)
• Northumberland – © Northumberland County Council (2024)
• City of Nottingham – © Nottingham City Council (2024)
• Nottinghamshire – © Nottinghamshire County Council (2024)
• Oldham – © Oldham Council (2024)
• Oxfordshire – © Oxfordshire County Council (2024)
• City of Peterborough – © Peterborough City Council (2024)
• City of Plymouth – © Plymouth City Council (2024)
• Poole © Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council) (2024)
• City of Portsmouth – © Portsmouth City Council (2024)
• Reading – © Reading Borough Council (2021)
• Redcar and Cleveland – © Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (2024)
• Richmond on Thames – © London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
• Rochdale – © Rochdale Borough Council (2024)
• Rotherham – © Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (2024)
• Rutland – © Rutland County Council (2024)
• Salford – © Salford City Council (2024)
• Sefton – © Sefton Council (2024)
• Sheffield – © Sheffield City Council (2024)
• Shropshire – © Shropshire County Council (2024)
• Slough – © Slough Borough Council (2024)
• South Tyneside – © South Tyneside Council (2024)
• Somerset – © Somerset County Council (2024)
• South Gloucestershire – © South Gloucestershire Council (2024)
• City of Southampton – © Southampton City Council (2024)
• St Helens – © St Helens Council (2024)
• Staffordshire – © Staffordshire County Council (2024)
• Stockport – © Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (2024)
• Stockton on Tees – © Stockton Council (2024)
• Stoke on Trent – © Stoke on Trent City Council (2024)
• Suffolk – © Suffolk County Council (2024)
• Surrey – © Surrey County Council (2024)
• Tameside – © Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (2024)
• Thurrock – © Thurrock Council (2024)
• Torbay – © Torbay Council (2024)
• Wakefield – © Wakefield Council (2024)
• Walsall – © Walsall Council (2024)
• Warrington – © Warrington Borough Council (2024)
• Warwickshire – © Warwickshire County Council (2024)
• Warwickshire – © Warwickshire County Council (2024)
• West Berkshire – © West Berkshire Council (2024)
• West Sussex – © West Sussex County Council (2024)
• Wigan – © Wigan Council (2024)
• Wiltshire – © Wiltshire County Council (2024)
• Windsor and Maidenhead – © The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (2024)
• Wirral – © Wirral Council (2024)
• Wokingham – © Wokingham Borough Council (2024)
• Worcestershire – © Worcestershire County Council (2024)
• York – © York City Council (2024)

Section 1.2 - Statement of disclaimer

Intellectual Property Disclaimer

The England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database contains information which belongs to other parties. Users must ensure that any use of information does not breach the owner's copyright. If it is unclear whether any particular use is permissible a user should contact the copyright owner. The information supplied on the England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database is updated periodically by the organisations that provide it (including Natural England). Users must check that any information accessed is current and addresses any specific purpose for which they propose to use it. Data supplied to the England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database will have been captured for a specific purpose, at a scale relevant to this purpose. This does not guarantee that the data is fit for any other purpose.

General Disclaimer

The materials contained on this website are of a general, informational, nature. We have used reasonable endeavours to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the contents of the pages on this site but the information does not constitute advice and must not be relied on as such.

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Natural England and the England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database partner organisations will not be held responsible for any loss, damage, or inconvenience of any nature whatsoever caused as a result of any inaccuracy or error within these pages. Links to other sites from these pages are for information only and Natural England and the England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database partner organisations accept no responsibility or liability for access to, or the material on, any site which is linked from or to this site.

Natural England and the England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database partner organisations do not endorse or accept responsibility for the material of any website referred to or accessed through this site.

Section 1.3 - Statement on sources of error

Version 2.1 brings together data from about 50 datasets and has required a whole range of assumptions, simplifications, combinations, interpretations and generalisations to create workable maps.

We cannot check the exact details for every land parcel on the map so what the map says can be at variance with the situation on the ground.

This underscores the importance of ground truthing and supplementation with local data (and knowledge) when using the maps at local scales.

Section 1.4 - Acknowledgements

The England Green Infrastructure Mapping Database has been created as a part of delivering the 25 Year Environment Plan aspiration to establish a National Framework of Green Infrastructure Standards for England and is also a part of the Natural Capital and Ecosystems Assessment Programme.

The work for Version 1.1 was undertaken during the financial year 2020 – 21.

The work for Version 1.2 was undertaken during the calendar year 2022.

The work for Version 2.1 was undertaken during 2023 and early 2024 with some of the experimental content having been in development since 2021.

The content of Version 2.1 was commissioned and funded by Defra, Natural England and the Natural Capital and Ecosystems Assessment Programme (NCEA) with collaborative contributions from The Rivers Trust and the University of Manchester.

Learn more about the Natural Capital and Ecosystems Assessment Programme here.

The work leading to the creation of V 2.1 was undertaken by a range of contractors with some additional work being undertaken in house within Natural England.

The contractors that have been involved in delivering elements of the England Green Infrastructure Mapping are:

ADAS Ltd. V 1.1 and V 2.1 core content and subsequent associated work.

Project Team – Ben Hockridge, George Holmes.

2Excel Aviation. Urban Habitat and Naturalness Mapping.

Project Team - Chloe Barnes, Loreena Jaouen, Klara Halikova.

LUC (land Use Consultants). V 2.1 core content development phase 2.

Project Team - Kim Jones, Diana Manson, George Holmes and Izzy Grace.

The Rivers Trust. Blue Infrastructure module partial amendment.

Project Team – Chris Bean, David Johnson.

The University of Manchester. Urban Heat, Air Quality and Green Infrastructure and Urban Food Production modules.

Project Team – Professor Sarah Lindley, Dr Richard Figueroa Alfaro (Heat module).

Westcountry Rivers Ltd. Blue Infrastructure module development and V 2.1 core content development Phase 1.

Project Team - Sarah Wigley, Emily Howard-Williams and Oakley Brunt.

Idox Ltd. Presentation and design of the GI mapping on the Green Infrastructure Website.

Project Team – Andy Brewer, Patrick Beasley.