England Peat Map: Extent, Depth, and Condition of Peaty Soils
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Description
Natural England's 2025 map models the extent, depth, and condition of England's peaty soils. The dataset includes vegetation and upland peat erosion features such as grips, gullies, bare peat, and peat hagging. It was funded by the UK's Nature for Climate Fund and Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment programme.
Use Cases
Estimate soil carbon stocks based on mapped peat extent and depth.
Identify areas for peatland restoration based on mapped erosion and drainage features.
Model hydrological impacts based on the condition of peat soils.
Assess habitat quality for biodiversity based on mapped vegetation and peat condition.
Strengths
Openly available and free to use for any purpose.
Funded by UK government programmes (Nature for Climate Fund, NCEA).
Includes multiple modeled attributes: extent, depth, condition, and erosion features.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its focus on England.
Provenance
Source
Natural England, with data from various rights holders as per the EPM data catalogue.
Collection Method
Modeled map; see NERR149 England Peat Map Final Report for methodology.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-29 12:01:58.618073; freshness should be verified.