Land cover change in Scotland

| Rough Grassland | Intermediate Grassland | Smooth Grassland | Blanket Mire | Lowland Mire | Heather Moorland | Lochs | Canals | Reservoirs | Ditches | Rivers | Marginal Inundation | Streams | Wet Ground | Built Land | Quarry | Recreational Land | Rock/Cliff | Transport Corridor | Bare Ground | Tracks | Bracken | Low Scrub | Tall Scrub | Arable | Broadleaved Woodland | Coniferous Woodland | Mixed Woodland | Young Plantation | Broadleaved Plantation | Coniferous Plantation | Parkland | Felled Woodland | Hedgerows | Line of Trees |

Results - Feature - FreshWater

Canals

Union Canal, Linlithgow, Lothian Region (L.Gil)

Artificially confined water course of greater than 10 metres width.

  • 1940s baseline - very small amounts found
  • 1940s-1980s change - no significant change
  • Dynamics of change - little change
  • 1980s outcome - no overall change

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