INSPIRE Cadastral Parcels: Land Ownership Polygons for Scotland

Registers of Scotland maintains this dataset of cadastral parcels to comply with the INSPIRE Directive. It contains polygon shapes representing the position and indicative extent of surface ownership for each registered property in Scotland, with each parcel linked to a title via a unique inspire id. The data is organized by the 33 Registration Counties and is provided in ESRI Shapefile format.

Use Cases

• Land use planning based on cadastral parcel boundaries and locations.
• Property market analysis using the indicative extent of ownership polygons.
• Cross-referencing land registry titles via the unique inspire id attribute.
• Spatial analysis of property distribution across Scotland's 33 Registration Counties.

Strengths

• Data is produced and maintained by the authoritative Registers of Scotland.
• Each cadastral parcel has a unique identifier (inspire id) linking it to a registered title.
• The dataset is structured for national coverage across Scotland's 33 Registration Counties.

Limitations

• The parcel polygons show indicative extent; the exact legal rights and land within a title cannot be established from this dataset.
• Key metadata such as row count, specific columns, and license information is unavailable across all sources.
• The last update date (2026-05-28) appears to be a future date, indicating potential metadata inaccuracy.

Provenance

Source

Registers of Scotland

Collection Method

Produced and maintained to comply with the INSPIRE Directive, as a subset of the Cadastral Map.

Freshness

2026-05-28 17:02:42.907502

Geography

Scotland, United Kingdom