Area 1 Badminton Plateau Landscape Character Areas
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Landscape Character Areas 3 His Grace’s private landing strip, 1300 metres long. Showing 1 New development on the edge of and gateway to part of 7 mile plantation, the boundary of Badminton Estate. Hawkesbury Upton. 2 Large cornfields now a feature of the Cotswolds, replacing the grasslands, looking west towards Dunkirk. 5 On top of the scarp land is used for cereal crops. New forestry 4 Badminton House with lake foreground. Celebrated lake jump planted to facilitate pheasant shooting. Seven Mile plantation was 6 Thatched Cottage. Toad Hall, Old Down Road, Badminton. 7 Typical Estate cottages, Badminton. Built and maintained by at 3 day international horse trials event. planted by Capability Brown. One of only two on the Badminton estate. Estate yard workers. 11 Oakes Lane with characteristics of an “Enclosure” road: straight with large verges. The Warren buildings on left and Park Farm on right. Names derived from medieval rabbit 10 Air shaft turret for Sodbury rail warren and Deer Park. Power lines cross the horizon. 8 Badminton Park. Track leading from Luckington Road to sewage filter 9 Green lane near Lyegrove (Tyning Lane). Dry stone walls in poor tunnel. One of 6 in the LCA. beds. condition. 15 Tormarton from south east. All dry stone wall field boundaries predate 1637. 14 View from Burton Road back towards Acton Turville. 12 View to north west from Sodbury Road. Flat arable land 13 View from Burton Road at junction with The Street. The Fox Horses in field reflect the fact that horse breeding is a Figure 5 – Area 1 with railway cutting in middle distance and woods in and Hounds Public House, the Old Tithe Barn and Turnpike major activity in the area. background. Cottage. Old Scots Pines along road. Badminton Plateau Landscape Character Areas 2 West Littleton from Furlongs Lane, with a complete piece of dry stone wall in the foreground. The A46 (on ridge) and Dyrham Park on the horizon. 1 The Broadmead Brook Valley viewed from the road at Shire Hill. There are numerous springs in the valley sides. Broadmead Brook comes through Harcombe Wood to the left of Ebbdown Farm (skyline). 3 One tree, from Furlongs Lane. Arable land looking towards Marshfield Parish, pasture in the valley 4 Marshfield town, High Street scene. 5 Pennsylvania roundabout where two main routes meet A46/A420. behind. 6 From the A420 Bristol Road, looking approximately north east, down the valley of the Broadmead Brook, which is fed by about 10 springs. 7 Open dip-slope arable landscape, with stone boundaries adjacent to roads and hedgerows within fields. Rushmead Farm building (Oldfield Farm) on skyline. Farm forms the small building in the distance. 9 View towards the A46 and Beacon Lane Plantation. Pylon towers within this particular location are lower in height to limit the visual impact as they cross the skyline of the Cotswold Scarp. Figure 8 – Area 2 8 Large arable fields and pylon towers. Dunsdown Beeches and Badminton Plantation over 3km away mark the the horizon and boundary of Dyrham Park. Marshfield Plateau Landscape Character Areas 3 Side valley of the St Catherine’s Brook Valley. Valley sides and bottom grazed and top 1 The ridgeline of Hanging Hill set above the Golden Valley. 2 Cold Ashton Manor. cultivated. Westbury White Horse can be seen in the distance on a clear day. 4 Pipley Bottom valley with terraced fields. Ornamental trees were introduced by Canon Ellacombe of Bitton Church. 5 The Hamswell Valley, site of the Battle of Lansdown with beech trees on the skyline at Freezing Hill, in the foreground an amenity man-made fishing lake. The Cotswold Way runs through the valley. 8 Extensive woodland from near the Three Shire Stones on the south east boundary of the area. 6 Monkswood Reservoir, within the St Catherine’s Brook Valley. 7 St Catherine’s valley looking towards Marshfield and beyond Cold Ashton Parish. Figure 11 – Area 3 Valley bottom and sides grazed, tops cultivated. Ashwicke Ridges Landscape Character Areas 1 Hawkesbury Knoll, with prehistoric burial mound and lynchets medieval field 2 The Somerset Monument is visible on the scarp (to the left) over considerable distances. Hawkesbury village 3 Ancient village of Hawkesbury. The church, Church Farm and system. is well integrated. The landform, woodland and tree clumps are characteristic of the scarp landscape. outbuildings with site of Old Manor. 7 The M4 looking west, descending to the Boyd Vale following 4 Panoramic view of the parish from Mapleridge. Village running down escarpment, divided between Horton and Widden Hills. 5 Traditional laid hedge near Chapel Lane, Old Sodbury. Village edge softened by surrounding trees and woodland. Main woodland areas on escarpment. a natural fold within the scarps landform, enlarged by cutting. 10 Dyrham House and park with expansive views over the lower vale typical from the scarp. 6 Panorama from within the Dodington Estate. 8 Hinton Hill Fort and its strip lynchets constructed 9 The Cotswold Scarp rising above the Boyd Vale, with Dyrham before the black death, seen from the Cotswold Way. Woods nestled within a fold of the scarp. 14 Freezing Hill beech trees on the skyline of the Cotswold Scarp, form a distinctive feature and landmark with local and distant views. Figure 14 – Area 4 13 Extension to Tracy Park Golf Course within the agricultural 11 Recently planted avenue of trees in Dyrham Park. 12 Cotswold Scarp rising to Tog Hill on the skyline. landscape. Cotswold Scarp Landscape Character Areas 1 The southern edge of Charfield village showing the recently built housing in Woodlands Road. Wickwar 2 View of the eastern edge of Wickwar village, set above the Little Avon Valley. Ridge can be seen on the skyline. Roof colouring in this development is more sympathetic to the area than some previous examples. 3 Wetmoor Wood in the middle distance looking towards Wales, from the scarp. 4 The vale looking towards Horton Bushes showing typical square cut hedges. 5 Barnhill Quarry looking south towards Stub Riding. Peripheral mounding and planting assist in screening the site. 6 Common gate and common land at Little Sodbury End. 7 View along Chipping Sodbury High Street towards the Cotswold Scarp. Figure 17 – Area 5 Wickwar Ridge and Vale Landscape Character Areas 1 Kingrove Common with the Cotswold Escarpment at Old Sodbury in the background. Used by 2 Wapley Bushes and Wapley Common. 3 View from Lyde Green Common with Pucklechurch Ridge defining the most of the local farmers for grazing. Horses have been banned to deter travellers. skyline. The oil terminal and M4 feature in the middle distance. 4 View eastwards to the Pucklechurch Ridge, with the chimney 5 Cotswold Scarp. Looking east from balcony of Community 6 Boyd Vale towards Cotswold Scarp from near Talbot Farm, 7 Abson. Church of St. James and village. Also a key skyline of Brandy Bottom Colliery within the middle distance. Centre in Pucklechurch, recreation field in the foreground. Shows at the top of Burchall’s Hill. Dyrham Woods (LCA4) nestle in feature in views from Doynton. the dominance of escarpment in the landscape. the fold of the scarp. 8 Wall of Abson Church, black copper slag coping stones from Warmley 9 Looking West from the Cotswold Way across the broad Boyd Vale, towards 10 Siston Court sits on the ridgeline, with the church and hamlet set 11 Village of Wick with the Cotswold Scarp and Ashwicke Brass Works. Pucklechurch and its trading estate. within the Siston Brook Valley below. Ridges forming the skyline. 16 View across Doynton to Toghill: subdivision of agricultural land has resulted in an increasing number of 14 View from Toghill picnic area, with 15 Residential development within Wick, buildings in the landscape. Doynton village in hollow, Pucklechurch with the line of the properties to the right on the low ridgeline behind with the following the A420. Wick Quarry within wooded framework. The works Doynton village. Stone walls and buildings Figure 20 – Area 6 12 13 trading estate evident. Bristol lies to the buildings however remain visible beyond the site. contain the lanes. left in the distance. Pucklechurch Ridge and Boyd Valley Landscape Character Areas 1 Lodge House at Tortworth Old Court 2 Panoramic view of the Tortworth Estate (formerly deer park), Old Court and church. With one overgrown pond, ornamental Scots pine, pasture and some arable land. The Cotswold Scarp to north west, lies beyond the South Gloucestershire area. 3 Tortworth Chestnut. The largest middle trunk forms the centre of the tree, 4 Former deer park around Old Tortworth Court (medieval) from near old chestnut tree (one of few 5 A view of the village from the east showing Falfield surrounded by high with numerous surrounding trunks growing from the same tree. grasslands which have not been re-seeded - thus retaining wild flowers which appear later in the year). ground on three sides. 7 Taken from Wick’s Hill (known locally as Butcher’s Hill) looking east south east. Showing the undulating mainly pastoral landscape. The new development at the Burltons in Townwell is shown to the right. Wickwar Quarry along Wickwar Ridge is on the skyline. The photo shows settlement along the main road B4058. To the left on the skyline, Brand Wood, typical of many woods and copses within the area. 6 Looking towards the Boat House at Tortworth Lake, contained within a wooded valley. 10 The M5 Motorway passing north east through the vale with wooded ridgelines typical of the area. 8 Arable land at Buckover Farm looking towards higher ground at Cromhall. 9 Silage fields and arable land within a broad vale, from the south. The settlement of Whitfield on the A38, Figure 23 – Area 7 The M5 is hidden from view and passes through this area, within the middle is visible within the distance to the left.