NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CURRENT LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ASSESSMENT CURRENT LANDSCAPE CHARACTER NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 15d 10b 18k Legend Ironstone Landscapes Lower Jurassic Geology Landscapes 15c 10c 1. Ironstone Uplands 13. Undulating Hills and Valleys 11a 1a Guilsborough Ironstone Uplands 13a Middleton Cheyney and Woodford Halse 1b Spratton and Creaton Ironstone Uplands 13b Bugbrooke and Daventry 13c Long Buckby 18h 2. Ironstone Hills 13d Cottesbrooke and Arthingworth 18j 13e Stoke Albany and Ashley 7b 2a Eydon Hills 2b Staverton Hills 15b 12f 18g 3a 3. Ironstone Quarried Plateau 14. Rolling Agricultural Lowlands 18i 3a Kirby and Gretton Plateau 14a Newbold Grounds 13e CORBY 4. Rolling Ironstone Valley Slopes 15. Farmed Scarp Slopes 7c 4a Harlestone Heath and the Bramptons 15a Hothorpe Hills to Great Oxendon 18f 4b Moulton Slopes 15b Cottingham to Harringworth 15c Harringworth to Duddington 12e 4c Ecton and Earls Barton Slopes 4d Hanging Houghton 15d Duddington to Easton on the Hill 19c 15a 4e Pitsford Water 7a 12c 9b 4f Kettering and Wellingborough Slopes 4g Irthlingborough Slopes 16. Low Pastoral Hills 12d 16a Boddington Hills Boulder Clay Landscapes Riverine Landscapes 5a 5. Clay Plateau KETTERING 5a Naseby Plateau 17. River Valley Floodplain 5b Sywell Plateau 17a River Cherwell Floodplain 4f 4g 5c Burton Wold 17b River tove Floodplain 18e 17c Brampton Valley Floodplain 6. Undulating Claylands 17d River Ise Floodplain 19b 13d 1a 6a The Tove Catchment 17c 6b Hackleton Claylands 18. Broad River Valley Floodplain 5c 6c Bozeat Claylands 18a The Nene - Long Buckby to Weedon Bec 4d 9a 18b The Nene - Weedon Bec to Duston Mill 5b 18c The Nene - Duston Mill to Billing Wharf 7. Wooded Clay Plateau 18d The Nene - Billing Wharf to Woodford Mill 4e 17d 1b 7a Geddington Chase 18e The Nene - Woodford Mill to Thrapston 12b 7b Deene Plateau 18f The Nene - Thrapston to Cotterstock 7c Rockingham Plateau 18g The Nene - Cotterstock to Warmington 18h The Nene - Warmington to Wandsford 18i The Welland - Market Harborough to Cottingham 13c WELLINGBOROUGH 8. Low Wooded Clay Ridge 18j The Welland - Cottingham to Wakerley 18k The Welland - Tixover to Wothorpe 19b 8a Whittlewood Plateau 4b 8b Salcey Forest and Yardley Chase 4a 19. Broad Unwooded Vale 4c 18a 9. Farmed Claylands 19a Boddington Vale Farmland 19b Vale of Rugby NORTHAMPTON 9a Chelveston and Caldecott Claylands 19c Welland Vale DAVENTRY 18d 9b Polebrook Claylands 12a 6c Limestone Landscapes 14a 18c 18b 10. Limestone Plateau 13b 2b 10a Croughton, Aynho and Farthinghoe Plateau 10b Collyweston Limestone Plateau 6b 10c King’s Cliffe Plateau 11. Wooded Limestone Hills and Valleys 8b 11a King’s Cliffe Hills and Valleys 16a 12a Limestone Valley Slopes 19a 12a Wollaston to Irchester 12b Higham Ferrers to Thrapston 2a 12d Harper’s Brook 12c Thrapston to Warmington 12e Aldwincle to Oundle 6a 12f Oundle to Nassignton 17b Northamptonshire Current Landscape Character 13a Assessment 8a Current Visual Landscape Character Types and Areas 17a 10a 0 2 4 6 8 10 Kilometers This map is based upon Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Oce © Crown copyright. © RNRP CIC 2010 Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Northamptonshire County Council: Licence No. 100019331. Published 2010..