Communities and wildlife in the Severn and Avon Vales

Gaskell, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8830-5252 and Lake, Jeremy (2023) Communities and wildlife in the Severn and Avon Vales. 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 buildings here remain from a large farmstead of a type which developed on the edge of villages and hamlets, often in tandem with the gradual and planned enclosure of the open fields around them, in this part of the Severn and Avon Vales NCA. This is a landscape of large farms and estates with rich evidence for farming and settlement from the Roman and prehistoric periods, surviving as earthworks and buried archaeology to the north and east of this site.

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:	21 May 2025 13:42
Last Modified:	30 May 2025 11:11
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15036

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