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Vale Farmland Aerial View

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Vale Farmland Aerial View

 Key characteristics
• A gently rolling landscape associated with clay soils.
• Medium to large regularly shaped arable fields and more localised smaller grass fields.
• A well defined hedgerow pattern with characteristic hedgerow trees.
• Occasional ditches and minor streams bordered by crack willows and ash.
• A nucleated pattern of small, compact villages.


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