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Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside (MAGIC) is a governmental website in the United Kingdom which provides geographic information, in map form.. Launched in 2002, [1] the site originally only had information for rural areas in England but it has grown to include information on a wide range of landscape and environmental designations in England, Wales and Scotland, and cover ...
Available on iOS and Android, the free to download app allows users to access maps direct to their devices, plan and record routes and share routes with others. Users can subscribe and download OS Landranger and OS Explorer high-resolution maps in 660dpi quality and use them without incurring roaming charges as maps are stored on the device and ...
The new rights were introduced region by region through England and Wales, with completion in 2005. Maps showing accessible areas have been produced, and are available online as "open access maps" produced by Natural England. [30] Commons are included in the public access land now shown on the Ordnance Survey Explorer maps.
Natural England website Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve is a 3,541-hectare (8,750-acre) UK national nature reserve. [ 1 ] It was founded to help safeguard the internationally important wintering bird populations, [ 2 ] and six internationally important species of wildfowl and wading birds winter here.
NNRs are managed on behalf of the nation, many by Natural England itself, but also by non-governmental organisations, including the members of The Wildlife Trusts partnership, the National Trust, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. There are 221 NNRs in England covering 1,100 square kilometres (420 square miles). [1]
Benacre NNR consists of areas of open water lagoons and reed beds along the Suffolk coast including Benacre Broad, Covehithe Broad and Easton Broad and extending as far south as Reydon. The reserve features extensive reedbeds , woodland and heathland , as well as pits created by gravel extraction.
As of July 2015, forty-two LNRs in Hertfordshire have been notified to Natural England. [5] The largest site is Therfield Heath with 147.3 hectares (364 acres). It has some of the richest chalk grassland in England, and it is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). [6]
Kingley Vale is a 204.4-hectare (505-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Chichester in West Sussex. [1] [2] It is also a Special Area of Conservation [3] and a Nature Conservation Review site, Grade I. [4] An area of 147.9 hectares (365 acres) is a national nature reserve. [5]