Freckenham Neighbourhood Plan Parish Landscape Study: Character and Sensitivity Appraisal September 2020 Final version Contents: PAGE NO. 1. Landscape and History 3 2. Introduction to the assessment 6 3. Character context 8 4. Methods 10 5. Rural Character Areas 13 Rural character areas map 14 Character area R1 16 Character area R2 19 Character area R3 22 Character area R4 25 Sensitivities: Summary text 28 Sensitivities: Summary map 29 6. Village Character Areas 30 Village character areas 31 Character area VA 33 Character area VB 36 Character area VC 39 Character area VD 42 Character area VE 45 Sensitivities: Summary text 48 Sensitivities: Summary map 49 Report by chartered Landscape Architect Lucy Batchelor-Wylam CMLI Appendix 50 For full appendices of supporting mapping please refer to separate Landscape planning and landscape document architecture services. Tel: 07905 791207 email:
[email protected] | Freckenham Landscape Appraisal | Final version September 2020 1. Landscape and history History Mortimer Lane area. 1. Freckenham is a rural parish in the district of West Suffolk (formerly Forest Heath) which 4. The fenland landscape to the west and north was very different. It is a large shallow, sits along the boundary with Cambridgeshire. It lies just to the southwest of Mildenhall, marshy low-lying plain that was subject to repeated flooding by the north sea, and by approximately halfway between Thetford and Cambridge. The parish has the form of water flowing down from the uplands and overflowing the rivers. It was drained in the a thick T or Y shape, and stretches about 3.3 miles from north to south.