Conserving farming heritage in the Suffolk Coasts and Heath

Gaskell, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8830-5252 and Lake, Jeremy (2023) Conserving farming heritage in the Suffolk Coasts and Heath. 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 farmstead illustrated here shows how farms in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths NCA benefitted from access to coastal marshes for grazing and fields, which from the medieval period were farmed from villages and isolated high-status farmsteads. Aerial survey has also revealed the cropmarks of routeways and farms with their enclosures dating from the Bronze Age.

Item Type:	Monograph (Other)
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > Countryside and Community Research Institute
Depositing User:	Peter Gaskell
Date Deposited:	21 May 2025 13:46
Last Modified:	21 May 2025 13:46
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15037

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