FCS Admin Boundaries: Forestry Commission Scotland Administrative Regions

Forestry Commission Scotland administrative boundaries are available as an interactive web map service. The service includes layers for FC Conservancy boundaries, FC Forest District boundaries, Woodlands In & Around Towns (WIAT), and the Central Scotland Green Network boundary (CSGN). Forestry Commission Scotland hosts the service with cooperation from Scottish Natural Heritage.

Use Cases

• Map forestry administrative units based on the described FC Conservancy and Forest District boundaries.
• Analyze urban woodland proximity based on the Woodlands In & Around Towns (WIAT) layer.
• Plan regional green infrastructure based on the Central Scotland Green Network boundary (CSGN).
• Integrate administrative forestry data into desktop GIS applications using the provided Web Map Service (WMS) endpoint.

Strengths

• Contains multiple distinct, toggleable boundary layers for different administrative and planning purposes.
• Boundaries have been generalized to improve screen refresh response time for interactive use.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:09.761839; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Scotland