Historic Environment Scotland Spatial Data for Cultural Heritage Sites

Historic Environment Scotland provides a spatial data download service covering nine categories of cultural heritage assets. The service includes data for World Heritage Sites, Conservation Areas, Scheduled Monuments, Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Listed Buildings, Battlefields Inventory Boundaries, Historic Marine Protected Areas, and Properties in Care. The data is provided by the Government Digital Service via an Atom feed in XML format.

Use Cases

• Map and analyze the distribution of protected historic assets based on the listed categories.
• Conduct spatial planning and impact assessments for development projects near Scheduled Monuments or Conservation Areas.
• Perform historical and cultural landscape analysis using the boundaries for Battlefields, Gardens, and Designed Landscapes.
• Support heritage tourism and site management by visualizing Properties in Care and World Heritage Sites.

Strengths

• Covers nine distinct, officially recognized categories of cultural heritage assets.
• Data is provided by the national public body responsible for Scotland's historic environment.
• Spatial data format is suitable for integration with Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Provided via an Atom feed download service.

Time Range

unknown

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Scotland