dataset · United Kingdom
Government / regulator
Multi-tier archetypes to characterise British landscapes, farmland and farming practices
This dataset consists of landscape and agricultural management archetypes (1 km resolution) at three levels, defined by different opportunities for adaptation. Tier 1 archetypes quantify broad differences in soil, land cover and population across Great Britain, which cannot be readily influenced by the actions of land managers; Tier 2 archetypes capture more nuanced variations within farmland-dominated landscapes of Great Britain, over which land managers may have some degree of influence. Tier
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- Tier 1 landscape archetypes (soil, land cover, population) for Great Britain · Tier 2 farmland-landscape archetypes for Great Britain · Tier 3 farm-management archetypes (socioeconomic and agro-ecological) for England and Wales · Per-cell assignment accuracy (Euclidean distance)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain (Tiers 1-2); England and Wales (Tier 3)
- Resolution docs-verified
- 1 km (1000 m) spatial
- Formats docs-verified
- TIFF
- Access docs-verified
- Open Government Licence; download from the EIDC catalogue, with scripted access using a Bearer personal access token
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Stratifying catchment or site-scale land-use and soil context to support flood risk assessment inputs · Selecting representative 1 km landscape archetypes for ecology or agri-environment baselines · Characterising farm-management context in England and Wales for catchment mitigation or land-use planning options
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · planners · hydrologists · GIS analysts · environmental consultants
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- No Tier 3 archetypes for Scotland, because several agricultural management input variables were unavailable · Tiers are analysed separately and not as a nested structure, so a Tier 3 archetype can sit in more than one Tier 2 archetype · 1 km grid cells are coarse for site-scale work
- Licence
- Open government licence
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Listed in ukceh-eidc public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (ukceh-eidc)