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NATMAP soilscapes

NATMAP soilscapes is a new product derived from the National Soil Map. It seeks to provide a useful, concise, easily interpreted and applicable description of the soils of England and Wales. However, unlike NATMAP vector, NATMAP soilscapes cannot be customised with non-spatial data like SOILSERIES.

Key Facts and Stats about NATMAP soilscapes

Simplified rendition of the national soil map;
About 30 distinct soil types

Who and what is this useful for?

NATMAP soilscapes is useful for anyone wanting generalised and simple-to-understand soil information at a 1:250,000 scale;
Conservationists, natuarlists and those concerned with whole eco-system dynamics will find this data very useful, as will city, county and district councils.

How much does this product cost?

£250 per 1,000 km².
Significant discounts apply for larger areas.

To view the legend for NATMAP soilscapes, click here.

NATMAP soilscapes data and description

The table below describes the various properties within this data product. Each polygon contains the information outlined below.

Property	Example from data	Description
SOIL	Shallow very acid peaty soils over rock	General description of the soil
TEXTURE	Peaty	General description of the texture of the soil
DRAINAGE	Variable	General description of the drainage of the soil
FERTILITY	Very low	General description of the fertility of the soil
LAND_COVER	Open moor	General description of the expected land cover types for this type of soil
HABITATS	Rugged wet heather and grass moor with bare rock, and bog vegetation in hollows	General description expected habitats for this type of soil
SHAPE	2	Feature ID code which links with the spatial description of the data within a geodatabase