North York Moors Landscape Character Assessment, 2003

The North York Moors National Park landscape was assessed in 2003, identifying 8 main landscape types and 52 character areas. The assessment describes key characteristics and potential pressures for each area. It was adopted by the National Park Authority in 2004 and has been superseded as of 2021.

Use Cases

• Classify landscape types based on described key characteristics.
• Assess environmental pressures on specific landscape character areas.
• Support spatial planning decisions using the geospatial boundaries of landscape areas.
• Conduct historical analysis of landscape assessment methodologies.

Strengths

• Contains 52 distinct landscape character areas and 8 landscape types.
• Assessment was formally adopted by the National Park Authority on 27th September 2004.
• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset was completed in 2003 and has been superseded as of 2021.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Carried out by consultants with input from National Park staff.

Time Range

Assessment completed in 2003.

Freshness

Superseded as of 2021; last update date is unknown.

Geography

North York Moors National Park, UK.