Habitat bank land in a habitat network
Farmland of 5 ha or more in England, not mostly grade 1 or 2, partly inside a habitat network Natural England has mapped: land where new habitat would join up habitat that is already there.
51,532 sites fit this search today
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
A land search, from the first words to a shortlist
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What the search looks for
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Open the search- 5 ha or more in England
- Farmland not mostly grade 1 or 2 (grade 3a kept and ranked lower)
- Open
- Partly inside a mapped habitat network
- Little priority habitat now
On every site
- What grows there now
- The shares of the land under crops, grass and trees, and how much is already priority habitat.
- Farmland grade
- The share that is best and most versatile land, from the national grades.
- Designations
- SSSIs, ancient woodland, common land and protected landscapes on or near the land.
Why these rules
Natural England's habitat networks show where new habitat would join up existing habitat, as guidance for local ecological networks. The statutory biodiversity metric (England only) gives extra credit only where the local nature recovery strategy maps a measure for the land. Woodland is left out.
Sites from the search
Six of the sites the search returned on 10 November 2026. Each opens on the map with its record.
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Castle Sowerby119 ha
Westmorland and Furness
In a habitat network 59%Grassland 99%
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Horton173 ha
South Gloucestershire
In a habitat network 40%Cropland 77%
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Fenny Compton135 ha
Stratford-on-Avon
In a habitat network 39%Cropland 78%
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Week St. Mary133 ha
Cornwall
In a habitat network 100%Cropland 5%
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Brize Norton116 ha
West Oxfordshire
In a habitat network 62%Cropland 91%
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Cotterstock102 ha
North Northamptonshire
In a habitat network 46%Cropland 48%
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
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