Galloway Dark Skies Park

A Dark Sky Park is a place with exceptionally dark night skies, a place where people have committed to keeping those skies dark, by controlling light pollution.

In November 2009, the International Dark-sky Association designated Galloway Forest Park as only the fourth Dark Sky Park in the world and the first in the UK.

But that's not all. The Galloway Park is REALLY dark - a Gold Tier Dark Skies park. Very few people live in the 300 square miles of forest and hills in the park so nights really are black - apart from the stars! Forestry Commission Scotland and the people of the park are committed to keeping it that way.

 
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. Galloway Dark Skies Park. Forest Research https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/53d2538d-8b30-44da-94a5-5d061914fc08

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Alternate title
FCPRODUCT.S_GALLOWAY_DARK_SKIES
Date ( Creation )
2009-11-01
Date ( Revision )
2015-10-09
Identifier
FCPRODUCT.S_GALLOWAY_DARK_SKIES
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Keywords
  • Forest Management , Planning , Environment , Felling , Landscape , Woodland , Ownership
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land use
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Please ensure that the following acknowledgement is displayed on any hard copy: Reproduced by Permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of

HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right [year]. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100021242.

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vector Vector
Denominator
10000
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Farming
  • Biota
  • Economy
  • Environment
Geographic identifier
GB-SCT

 

Date ( Publication )
2007-12-13

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Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9
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  • ESRI Shapefile (1.0 )

  • WMS (1.3.0 )

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Forestry Commission Data Download  

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Galloway Dark Skies Park

OnLine resource
Forestry Commission Open Data  
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Statement

This Galloway Dark Skies dataset contains a core area within a wider park boundary. The park boundary is based on the subset of Galloway Forest Park area. The core are is derived from the Forestry Commission's woodland sub-compartment database. There is an additional area included at the northern edge of the park that forms part of the Craigengillian estate.

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NAME: Park boundary or core area

COMMENT: More detail on park boundary

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53d2538d-8b30-44da-94a5-5d061914fc08   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2017-04-10
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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