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Dynodydd

Identifier

NRW_DS109859

Teitl Amgen

Alternative Title

• Landscape character areas.LYR
• National Landscape Character Area
• Regional landscape character map for Wales
• The character map- rLCA- Map cymeriad tirwedd rhanbarthol ar gyfer Cymru, National landscape character map.

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English

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Boundaries were created from an analysis of some 40+ existing environmental datasets plus a selection of site visits. Of note, this work includes reference to both the physical environment and human perceptions of it. Landscape is about the meeting of people and place, not just about place, as such, the boundaries were not derived mechanically from datasets but were also derived using some professional judgement, following site visits and preliminary work on mapping people's perceptions of how the Welsh landscape divides into 'broydd' (areas with a distinct sense of place that people commonly relate to). Mapping scale was 1:250,000 - so this dataset has very generalised boundaries. However, as the object of the exercise was to identify broad regions, concern over whether the boundary runs this side or that side of a road or field are not relevant within the scale of the regions being identified. For example 'Vale of Clwyd', 'Gower', Montgomeryshire Hills and Vales'. Instead, boundaries should be assumed to approximate broad zones of transition from one landscape area to another. Some landscapes presented strong physical features along which to run boundary lines, whereas other landscapes were found to be complex mosaics that gradually changed, or had subtle changes with few obvious single physical lines to follow. The resources of the project did not allow for detailed resolution of such boundaries and short cuts, typically in the form of following a generalised contour line, have often been used to complete the exercise. Islands are not included in the GIS dataset available to download, however they are included as contextual features within National Landscape Character Area (NLCA) description profiles and their map images. Islands are encompassed within the equivalent characterisation of seascapes, being the National Marine Character Areas (NMCA), also available to download on Datamap Wales”.

Additional Information

CCW Policy Research Report 07/19 explains the method in more detail. The perception related work ('Heuristic Mapping') is described in CCW Policy Research report 08/11. This is the first published dataset. Land Use Consultants (LUC) produced a first GIS version dated August 2007, but CCW did not publish this, and it is now superseded by the published version here.

Dyddiad cyfeirnod y set ddata (Cyhoeddiad)

Dataset Reference Date (Publication)

2023-09-18

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Wales (WLS)

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