FLAME: Farm-Level Asset Mapping for England

The FLAME dataset provides farm-level geospatial and tabular data products that map agricultural landholdings and ownership structures across England. Developed to support environmental policy, nature finance, and agri-environmental modeling, FLAME integrates multiple open data sources into a harmonised spatial database of farmed assets.

This version (v1.0) includes detailed information on:

Farm boundaries derived from spatial overlays of land parcels.

Ownership boundaries associated with registered titles.

Cropping and land use attributes sourced from annual returns.

Matched farm-business entities using natural language processing and rule-based entity matching.

Aggregated indicators on area, land use types, and overlaps between ownership and farm operation.

Metadata on administrative districts and relevant environmental overlays.

Key features:

Combines Rural Payments Agency (RPA) land parcel data, HM Land Registry ownership polygons, and June Agricultural Census statistics.

Includes NLP-enhanced entity resolution for linking farm and ownership entities.

Provides geospatial fields including SBI-level farm areas, ownership-perimeter overlaps, and crop-specific land use.

Useful for asset-level emissions accounting, biodiversity mapping, regulatory targeting, and financial risk analysis.