National Forest for Wales
This dataset shows the extent of the National Forest for Wales. The National Forest for Wales includes a variety of diverse woodlands with a range of ages, sizes, settings and benefits. All National Forest sites are recognised as good quality, well managed woodlands. Some excel in providing access or engagement with their community, some are recognised for the sustainable way they are managed, others focus on the benefits they have for nature. All play their part in helping address the nature and climate emergencies and providing a long-lasting woodland resource for Wales.
This dataset is periodically updated as more forest gets incorporated into the national forest through the status scheme assessment process. Data relating to the Welsh Government Woodland Estates sites put forward for National Forest for Wales Status will be gathered using existing data sources. Other land included from maps supplied by applicants is digitised from aerial photography and OS basemaps and verified using land registry documents. All boundaries and areas of sites are shown only for indicative purposes, are subject to change at any time, and should not be taken as legally binding or definitive in any way.
The National Forest for Wales team are responsible for enabling woodland site owners to become part of the National Forest for Wales network. The extent of Prospective National Forest for Wales sites will be mapped as polygon data, metadata will be gathered with relevant site details in order to inform whether they meet the outcomes necessary.
The extent of ownership will be determined through discussion with the site owner and when a site comes into the National Forest for Wales scheme this will be verified using their Land registry documents.
Contacts and events will also be logged as point data so that we have a record of the extent of engagement across Wales about the National Forest including relevant funding streams that the team can signpost to.
- Identification
- Extent
- Distribution
- Quality
- Keywords
- Spatial Reference System
- Content
- Constraints
- Maintenance
- Metadata
Identification
- Identifier
- NRW_DS125620
- Alternative Title
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- NationalForestWales.lyr
- Metadata Language
- English
- Lineage
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Data relating to the Welsh Government Woodland Estates sites put forward for National Forest for Wales Status will be gathered using existing data sources.
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 2024-07-09
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2026-03-04
Temporal Extent
- Begin date
- 2022-09-12
- End date
- 2025-09-30
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
Extent
- Geographic Extent
- Wales (WLS)
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Distribution
Distribution
- Format Type and Description
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Geographic Information System
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Unknown
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- Specification
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ESRI Feature Class
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Geographic Information System
(
Unknown
)
- Resource Locator
- National Forest for Wales ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- Resource Locator
- Web Mapping Service ( OGC:WMS )
Quality
Data quality
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- 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
- Explanation
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This dataset has not been assessed for conformance to the referenced INSPIRE regulation.
- Degree
- false
- Lineage
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Data relating to the Welsh Government Woodland Estates sites put forward for National Forest for Wales Status will be gathered using existing data sources.
Keywords
Keywords
- Type
- Theme
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-06-01
Keywords
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NRW Thesaurus
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- land use
- national forest
- Forest areas in Wales
- land use planning
- Type
- Theme
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-03-04
Spatial Reference System
Content
Content Information
NRW Profile
Custom Elements
Constraints
Constraints
Limitations on Public Access and Use
- Restriction type
- Other restrictions
Access Constraints Directive
- Limitations
- no limitations
Access Constraints Text
- Other constraints
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Part of this dataset is sensitive, and access may be restricted under relevant legislation. NRW may NOT publish or disseminate the sensitive data. Requests should be referred to NRW's Access to Information Officer. However, there are no access restrictions on non-sensitive data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate a redacted version of the data freely.
Use Constraints
- Use constraints type
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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© CNC/NRW All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444. Crown Copyright and Database Right. NRW does NOT grant permission to third parties to re-use or disseminate the full dataset. A redacted version of the data may be re-used under under terms of an open government licence.
Attribution Statement
- Other constraints
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Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444. Crown Copyright and Database Right.
Licence
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
Metadata
Metadata
- File Identifier
- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313235363230 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2026-03-05T17:54:40.261Z
- Metadata Standard Name
- NRW
- Metadata Standard Version
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1.0