Extent of Peatlands in England

Using a range of different data sources Natural England has collated a map showing the extent of peatlands in England. For the purposes of this project, peatlands have been classified into three types based on the source of the information but assumed to have the following general characteristics: ■ Deep peaty soils: Areas covered with a majority of peat >40cm deep. ■ Shallow peaty soils: Areas with a majority of soils with peat 10–40cm deep. ■ Soils with peaty pockets: Areas of mostly non-peat soils, supporting smaller pockets of deep peat (such as flushes or exposures of buried peat) too small to map at a national scale. Reported in Natural England's publication England's Peatland - carbon storage and greenhouse gases (NE257). We have have shared this data with permission from Natural England. You can request a download of the full dataset from [e-mail]. It is available free of charge for non-commercial purposes. If you want to use the data for a Commercial purpose you must obtain a licence from Natural England.