Conserving heritage and wildlife, and enabling public enjoyment of landscape, in England’s National Parks

Gaskell, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8830-5252 and Lake, Jeremy (2023) Conserving heritage and wildlife, and enabling public enjoyment of landscape, in England’s National Parks. 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. This farmstead is set within the Yorkshire Dales NCA in the Pennine uplands. There are over 4,500 field barns and outfarms in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (YDNP), a greater concentration than anywhere else in the British Isles, although only around 60 per cent of those present in around 1900 survive. The field barns and their walled landscapes with routeways leading to summer grazing on moorland are an integral part of the pastoral landscape and economy that has developed in the dales since the medieval period, and they are explicitly recognised in the National Park Management Plan as an element of the YDNP’s ‘special qualities’.

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:	15 May 2025 11:48
Last Modified:	30 May 2025 11:16
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15031

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