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Low Weald : Crockham Hill to Shipbourne

Key Characteristics

• Open pastoral landscape.
• Small blocks of woodland.
• Small to medium sized pastures.
• Intensively grazed fields separated by thick shaws and trimmed hedges.
• Isolated former hedgerow field trees.
• Brick and ragstone buildings with hanging tiles.
• Timber-frame buildings.
• Wooded greensand scarp is prominent in views.
• Wetlands and standing water (Bough Beech Reservoir).
• Springs, Springholes and ponds on Wealden Clays.

Overall Landscape Character Objective

• To retain the mosaic of small irregular fields and woodlands within a strong network of hedges and hedgerow trees.