Historic farmsteads on the North Northumberland Coastal Plain

Gaskell, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8830-5252 and Lake, Jeremy (2023) Historic farmsteads on the North Northumberland Coastal Plain. Other. Natural England.

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Abstract

From its inception over 30 years ago Agri-Environment Scheme (AES) policy has consistently recognised the importance of protecting and managing the historic environment, including traditional farm buildings, to secure a range of public goods for society. In 2021 Natural England commissioned research to review the uptake and values of AES options designed to support the maintenance of traditional farm buildings. This case study is one of a suite designed to illustrate the range of public benefits provided by this investment. Actual site locations are anonymised but are described with reference to the National Character Areas (NCA) in which they are located. Understanding the success and value of such funding is crucial in supporting future conservation decision making, especially for AES development. The farmsteads sited in the North Northumberland Coastal Plain NCA, and the Northumberland Sandstone Hills NCA, include some of the largest courtyard-plan farmsteads in England. These are often distinguished by the housing of farm workers (‘hinds’) in terrace rows and by the 1820s the use of threshing and fodder processing machines powered by horses, steam, water and wind. This is a designed landscape of large-scale regular enclosures with some earlier sinuous boundaries, plantations and straight routeways, intermixed with the earthworks of medieval villages and earlier cultivation and prehistoric settlement concentrated on areas that survived as common land.

Item Type:	Monograph (Other)
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > Countryside and Community Research Institute
Depositing User:	Peter Gaskell
Date Deposited:	09 May 2025 14:49
Last Modified:	30 May 2025 11:19
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15028

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