WHAT IS MAGIC?

The MAGIC website provides authoritative geographic information about the natural environment from across government. The information covers rural, urban, coastal and marine environments across Great Britain. It is presented in an interactive map which can be explored using various mapping tools that are included. Natural England manages the service under the direction of a Steering Group who represent the MAGIC partnership organisations.

LATEST NEWS

This month sees the release of a new dataset – ‘Ancient Woodland – Revised (England)’. This live dataset from Natural England provides an update to the ‘Ancient Woodland (England)’ layer, but is currently incomplete – covering Devon, Essex, and Warwickshire counties only. It will be added to until mid-2026 when it will fully replace the old Ancient Woodland dataset. Ancient woodland refers to land that has had a continuous woodland cover since at least 1600 AD. More on Data updates can be found here.

Launch

MAGIC was launched in 2002. Information covers rural, urban, coastal and marine environments across Great Britain. Presented in an interactive map which can be explored using various mapping tools.

Datasets

More than 300 data layers are available on MAGIC. The MAGIC partnership organisations are Natural England, Defra, Environment Agency, Historic England, Forestry Commission and Marine Management Organisation.

Launch

MAGIC is a very popular website with 2,500 daily user sessions and 9 million maps generated each month across 8 themes, three different basemaps and three overview maps.

Launch

MAGIC was launched in 2002. Information covers rural, urban, coastal and marine environments across Great Britain. Presented in an interactive map which can be explored using various mapping tools.

Datasets

More than 300 data layers are available on MAGIC. The MAGIC partnership organisations are Natural England, Defra, Environment Agency, Historic England, Forestry Commission and Marine Management Organisation.

Launch

MAGIC is a very popular website with 2,500 daily user sessions and 9 million maps generated each month across 8 themes, three different basemaps and three overview maps.

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