Section 2 - Source Data

List of data sources used in the creation of Version 2.2

Data source and date Link License
Ordnance Survey datasets
OS British National Grids https://github.com/OrdnanceSurvey/OS-British-National-Grids Open Government licence
OS Open Greenspace - 2024 https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/OpenGreenspace Open Government licence
OS OpenMap Local - 2024
  • Woodlands
  • Surface water
  • Surface water line
  • Rivers
  • Tidal Rivers
  • Tidal Waters
  • Foreshore
  • Roads
 https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/OpenMapLocal Open Government licence
OS Terrain 50 2023 https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/Terrain50 Open Government licence
OS Mastermap 2024
  • Greenspace
  • Topography
 https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/products/os-mastermap-topography-layer
This is not open data and was used to create derived products.		 License options available via OS website
 
Natural England datasets
Access to Greenspace Official Statistics in development (Lower Super Output Area) – AGI Scenario 7 https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/67fcb227-0081-43b1-a7b0-3926ef7c0ead Open Government licence
NE Local Nature reserves 2023 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/Defra::local-nature-reserves-england/about Open Government licence
NE National Nature reserves 2023 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ab7bfd86f5b347df8d47fc9bfab80caf/explore Open Government licence
NE CRoW Act 2000 - Access Layer 2023 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/crow-act-2000-access-layer/explore Open Government licence
NE Section 15 land 2023 https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/f7255820-97d1-4891-aa7c-b6a2baa1e2b6/crow-act-2000-section-15-land Open Government licence
NE King Charles 3rd England Coast Path Route 2024 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/a1488f928832407fbd267feb6802bed6/explore Open Government licence
NE King Charles 3rd England Coast Path Coastal Margin 2024 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/292c25e742984d0c881a666bcc266062/explore Open Government licence
NE Doorstep Greens 2023 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/673be92a820c48c88ff36e6c2508ba98/explore Open Government licence
NE Millennium Greens 2023 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/cab796a54c154156b27ba286168319ea/explore Open Government licence
NE Country parks 2023 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/a11befa8e6dc4227a7082d81bb1ddbdb/explore Open Government licence
NE Landscape Description Units 2005 This is not open data and was used to create derived products Licensing options available via Natural England Website
NE Living England Phase 4 - 2022 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/living-england-habitat-map-phase-4/explore Open Government licence
NE Priority habitat inventory - 2023 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/39403df11c8044d998772db5b54ad86c/explore Open Government licence
NE National Biodiversity Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment 2023 https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/4754c2ba-ec60-4356-98ae-cbfaaa30a43e/national-biodiversity-climate-change-vulnerability-assessment-england Open Government licence
NE Sites of Special Scientific Interest 2023/24 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/Defra::sites-of-special-scientific-interest-england/about Open Government licence
NE Special Area of Conservation 2024 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/e4142658906c498fa37f0a20d3fdfcff/explore Open Government licence
NE Special Protection Areas 2024 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/e6ee43be14554663b0a80bb42aa4e671/explore Open Government licence
NE Ramsar sites 2024 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/13b5f06edc88471db479b49b4ac04a43/explore Open Government licence
NE National Parks 2023 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/d333c7529754444894e2d7f5044d1bbf/explore Open Government licence
NE Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty 2024 https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/8e3ae3b9-a827-47f1-b025-f08527a4e84e/areas-of-outstanding-natural-beauty-england Open Government licence
NE Ancient Woodland Inventory 2024 https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/a14064ca50e242c4a92d020764a6d9df/explore?location=51.381693%2C-3.905974%2C6.71 Open Government licence
NE Ancient Woodland Inventory (Revised) 2025 https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/12b72196-1f20-44a9-8fe0-0e78db46a67c/ancient-woodland-revised-england Open Government licence
NE People and Nature Survey 2023 https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/people-and-nature-survey-for-england Open Government licence
 
Environment Agency Datasets
EA Water Framework Directive Ecological Status 2019
Rivers https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/c481c391-1008-4b05-bbfb-b0764b89ce8d Open Government licence
Lakes https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/edee5adf-dea9-41df-98d5-874808e4d886 Open Government licence
Canals https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/c481c391-1008-4b05-bbfb-b0764b89ce8d Open Government licence
Transitional https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/fdedb957-380d-4051-8a8e-284bb9815029 Open Government licence
Coastal https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/fdedb957-380d-4051-8a8e-284bb9815029 Open Government licence
EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea 2023 https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/bad20199-6d39-4aad-8564-26a46778fd94/risk-of-flooding-from-rivers-and-sea Open Government licence
EA Risk of Flooding from Surface water extent 3.3% annual change 2023 https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/95ea1c96-f3dd-4f92-b41f-ef21603a2802/risk-of-flooding-from-surface-water-extent-3-3-percent-annual-chance Open Government licence
EA Risk of Flooding from Surface water extent 1% annual change 2023 https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/8b82987d-3616-4e46-8edb-2973e8b82ad7/risk-of-flooding-from-surface-water-extent-1-percent-annual-chance Open Government licence
EA Bathing Waters 2022 https://environment.data.gov.uk/bwq/profiles/help-understanding-data.html Open Government licence
EA National LiDAR programme https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/f0db0249-f17b-4036-9e65-309148c97ce4/national-lidar-programme Open Government licence
 
Forestry Commission datasets
National Forest Inventory 2023 https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/national-forest-inventory/ Open Government licence
Woods for All https://data-forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/cdcfc9ba854141ecbfaa6c51d91e7051_0/about Open Government licence
Trees Outside of Woods https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/9c41b3c6-2453-44f6-9900-e7821f1a1072 Open Government licence
 
Office for National Statistics Datasets
Regions (December 2023) Boundaries EN BFE https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/ons::regions-december-2023-boundaries-en-bfe-2/about Open Government licence
Rural Urban Classification (2021) of Output Areas in EW https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/ed33e08c81244b77a15e00545be084e1_0/explore Open Government licence
Output Areas (December 2021) Boundaries EW BGC https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/4d4e021d-fe98-4a0e-88e2-3ead84538537/output-areas-december-2021-boundaries-ew-bgc-v21 Open Government licence
Lower layer Super Output Areas (December 2021) Boundaries EW BFC (V10) https://open-geography-portalx-ons.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/ons::lower-layer-super-output-areas-december-2021-boundaries-ew-bfc-v10-2/about Open Government licence
Mortality Statistics – underlying cause, sex and age https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/select/getdatasetbytheme.asp?opt=3&theme=&subgrp= Open Government licence
ONS Census 21 Geographies 2021 https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/censusgeographies/census2021geographies Open Government licence
ONS built up areas 2022 https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/46fff29c-7836-4082-9495-99e87476d402/built-up-areas-december-2022-boundaries-gb-bgg Open Government licence
ONS Census 21 General Health 2024 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandwellbeing/bulletins/generalhealthenglandandwales/census2021#general-health Open Government licence
ONS Census 21 Population 2021 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/populationandhouseholdestimatesenglandandwales/census2021unroundeddata Open Government licence
 
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government datasets
 
English indices of deprivation 2025 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2025 Open Government licence
 
National Trust datasets
National Trust Open data: Land - Always Open https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/171dcad3-ed21-4afe-966d-e3f255987d57/national-trust-open-data-land-always-open National Trust OpenData Licence
 
Wildlife Trust datasets
Cheshire Wildlife Trust Reserves - public access - 2022 N/A Creative Commons 4.0
Kent Wildlife Trust Reserves - 2022 N/A Creative Commons 4.0
Essex Wildlife Trust Reserves - public access - 2022 N/A Creative Commons 4.0
Berk, Bucks and Oxon Accessible Nature Reserve Boundaries (Open Source) 2022 N/A Creative Commons 4.0
 
Public Rights of Way datasets
Public Rights of Way - collated 2023 Available via individual Local Authority websites - collection of links available on row maps - https://www.rowmaps.com/ Open Government licence
 
Sustrans datasets
National Cycle Network 2024 https://data-sustrans-uk.opendata.arcgis.com/ Open Government licence
 
Historic England datasets
Historic England 2024
  • Scheduled Monuments
  • Historic Parks and Gardens
  • World Heritage sites
  • Registered Battlefields
 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/data-downloads Open Government licence
 
Sport England datasets
Sport England Grass pitches, golf course and outdoor tennis court provision https://www.activeplacespower.com/ https://www.activeplacespower.com/pages/license
 
Public Sector datasets
Aerial Photography Great Britain (APGB) This is not open data and was used to create derived products Available to public sector under Public Sector Geospatial Agreement - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-sector-contracts#aerial-photography-great-britain-apgb
 
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology datasets
CEH 10m UK Landcover map (LCM) 2020 https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/14a9ec05-071a-43a5-a142-e6894f3d6f9d Custom license for DEFRA group bodies
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/data/ukceh-land-cover-maps
CEH 1km Pollutant removal grid 2017 UK air pollution removal: how much pollution does vegetation remove in your area? - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/search?collection=Dataset&q=Geopackage		 Open Government licence
 
Met Office datasets
Met Office Climate projections 2018 - Regional Climate model ensemble 1980 - 2020 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/collaboration/ukcp/data/index Open Government licence
Met Office Climate Districts https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/about/districts-map Open Government licence
 
Climate Just datasets
Climate Just Social Heat Vulnerability Index https://www.climatejust.org.uk/map Issued as OGL by permission of the University of Manchester and Friends of the Earth.
 
Defra datasets
Modelled background pollution data https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/pcm-data Open Government licence
Strategic noise mapping (2017) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-noise-mapping-2019 Open Government licence
Defra Moorland Line https://magic.defra.gov.uk/Datasets/Dataset_Download_MoorlandLine.htm https://magic.defra.gov.uk/Copyright_Information_Data_Download.htm
Access to greenspace in England. Access to green space in England - GOV.UK https://magic.defra.gov.uk/Copyright_Information_Data_Download.htm
Blue space access points in England. Blue space access points in England Open Government licence
 
Noise Map datasets
Flight Noise https://noise-map.com/ Creative Commons Licence
 
CEDA Archive datasets
CHESS-SCAPE: Future projections of meteorological variables at 1 km resolution for the United Kingdom 1980-2080 derived from UK Climate Projections 2018 https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/8194b416cbee482b89e0dfbe17c5786c/ Open Government licence
 
NASA datasets
MODIS/Terra Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity 8-Day L3 Global 1km SIN Grid V061 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search Open Government licence
 
WorldPop Hub datasets
Population Counts / Individual countries 2015-2030 (100m resolution) R2025a v1 https://hub.worldpop.org/geodata/listing?id=135 Open Government licence
Additional EBNT Datasets

The EBNT makes use of a subset of the above datasets which are displayed under the EBNT heading and included with the search tool. The following additional datasets have been added to allow for completion of the EBNT tool. Uploaded 2023.

Data source and date used. Link Copyright
EBN Datasets
Agricultural Land Class Provisional Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) - data.gov.uk Open Government licence)
Surface Water Availability https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/water-abstraction-licensing-strategies-cams-process Open Government licence
Groundwater availability England | Catchment Data Explorer Open Government licence
Natural Flood Management Priority Defra Data Services Platform Open Government licence
Water Quality Management Area EWCO - Water Quality | EWCO - Water Quality | Forestry Commission (arcgis.com) Open Government licence
Rainfall Met Office Annual Precipitation Observations 1991-2020 12km | Annual Precipitation Observations 1991-2020 12km | The Met Office climate data portal (arcgis.com) Open Government licence
Countryside Stewardship Countryside Stewardship Scheme 2016 Management Areas (England) - data.gov.uk Open Government licence