Source/Archive record SCH4463 - The Cheshire Historic Landscape Characterisation

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Type Report
Title The Cheshire Historic Landscape Characterisation
Author/Originator
Date/Year 2008

Abstract/Summary

A project undertaken as part of a national programme developed and funded by English Heritage and encompassing Cheshire, Warrington, Halton and the Wirral. It sought to identify key historic landscape types and draw up recommendations for their future management. In addition the project has created a wide data set which can be used as a starting point for research into Cheshire’s historic landscape.

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Description

The HLC Project Report presents the background to the project and an overview of the development of the project area's landscape. It also presents the HLC Classification developed for the project area and management recommendations made to preserve and enhance its Historic Landscape Character. The HLC Project Appendix (the Appendix to the HLC Project Report) contains the Project's Methodology, detailed statistics and further information on the GIS Dataset created by the project. Managing Historic Landscapes is a gazetteer and summary of the HLC Classification and the management recommendations made by the project. The CHER database holds the live data and GIS dataset.

Location

Cheshire Historic Environment Record

Referenced Monuments (12)

  • Agricultural Earthworks Adjacent to the River Weaver (Monument)
  • Buerton Park (Monument)
  • Congleton Moss (Monument)
  • Earthworks at Bank Farm, North Rode (Monument)
  • Earthworks of field system near Higher Snab Farm (Monument)
  • Enclosure at Marthall (Monument)
  • Large Enclosure in Hatherton (Monument)
  • Linear Earthworks or Cropmarks (Monument)
  • Parcum de Hatherton (Monument)
  • Ridge and Furrow in Shavington cum Gresty (Monument)
  • Ridley Deer Park (Monument)
  • Wrenbury Hall Park (Monument)

Referenced Events (1)

  • The Cheshire Historic Landscape Characterisation Project (Ref: N/A)

Record last edited

Jan 27 2025 3:28PM