Percentage of Grassland in Britain

fellpony · #1 (**permalink**) 08-09-2009, 09:18 PM

Hello I want to know what the percentage of grassland is in the British Isles. That may include agricultural land, parks, cemetries, verges, and so on. I do know this information is out there somewhere but have since lost the website

Any help appreciated.

loripo · #2 (**permalink**) 08-09-2009, 09:33 PM

There may be something on this site ....

Habitats

valleyforge · #3 (**permalink**) 09-09-2009, 10:52 AM

The following is an excerpt from the UK Biodiversity Action Plan website ( Action plan for Lowland wood-pasture and parkland ), which might provide some clues as to where the information you're looking for might be collated from:

"There are a number of significant but currently uncoordinated inventories, datasets and registers of lowland wood-pasture and parkland. These include the Nature Conservancy Council's 1970s survey of parklands and wood-pastures of importance for the 'Mature Timber Habitat'; the Forestry Commission's National Inventory of Woodlands and Trees; The National Trust (NT) biological survey of NT-owned parkland and wood-pasture sites and English Nature's parkland inventory pilot study (1995) for Norfolk and Bedfordshire. English Heritage also has a register of parks and gardens which is being upgraded between 1997 and 2000, and similar data for Wales is held by CADW: Welsh Historic Monuments. Scottish Natural Heritage maintains an inventory of Gardens and designed landscapes in Scotland. There is also an Inventory of Historic Parks and Gardens, based at University of York, which contains information on historically important sites and County Historic Gardens Trust data."