Agricultural Parishes

Agricultural parishes are based on Civil Parishes which were abolished as an administrative unit in Scotland in 1975. Agricultural parishes continue to be used for boundary and statistical purposes. There are 891 agricultural parishes in Scotland and they are used in the Agricultural Census and for the payment of farming grants and subsidies. The dataset contains parish boundaries, parish names and parish codes.

 
Citation proposal
. Agricultural Parishes. Scottish Government https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c1d34a5d-28a7-4944-9892-196ca6b3be0c

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Date ( Creation )
1997-01-01
Date ( Revision )
2016-11-16
Identifier

www.gov.scot

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SG_AgriculturalParishes

Presentation form
mapDigital Digital map

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Maintenance and update frequency
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

IPSV - Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary - version 2

  • Agricultural land

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No limitations on public access

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The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)

Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Denominator
10000
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Farming
Geographic identifier

GB-SCT

 

Date ( Revision )
2007-09-13

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Reference system identifier

EPSG

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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

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    1.0

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Agricultural Parishes  

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Agricultural_Parishes  

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Agricultural Parishes  

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Area Management  

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dataset Dataset
Statement

The dataset was originally digitised from 1946 Ordnance Survey 1/4 inch to mile mapping in 1997 by the Scottish Office Digital Mapping Service and a further QA was carried out in 2003 by the Scottish Executive Geographical Information Service. The 2016 revision to the dataset was carried out by The James Hutton Institute as part of their work for the Areas of National Constraint (ANC) designation, and is derived from Civil Parish and Agricultural Parish datasets published by National Records of Scotland and The Scottish Government respectively. Civil parish boundaries were used in large measure to re-capture the agricultural boundaries at higher spatial resolution than they existed in the original layer. Where these did not contain some of the splits between parishes seen in the original agricultural parish boundary layer (such as in Orkney, Shetland, Edinburgh), historic Ordnance Survey 6-inch to the mile mapping (scale 1:10,560 – i.e. consistent with the scale of capture of the civil parish boundaries) was used to derive the boundaries. A new coastline has been applied which follows the Mean High Water (Springs) tide line marked in Ordnance Survey MasterMap Topography Layer (extracted January 2016). The result is an improved representation of the Agricultural Parish Boundaries at approximately 1:10,000 scale.

Metadata

File identifier
c1d34a5d-28a7-4944-9892-196ca6b3be0c   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2018-12-05
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

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