The development, landscapes and habitats of the village of Allithwaite - a representative of overlooked lowlands of the English Lake District

Bunce, R.G.H.; Wood, C.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-2998; Howard, D.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4494-7450. 2023 The development, landscapes and habitats of the village of Allithwaite - a representative of overlooked lowlands of the English Lake District. Lancaster, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 24pp. (Unpublished)

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Abstract/Summary

Allithwaite consisted of only a few farms and cottages from the seventeenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, and maps of the development through the centuries are given. In the next 40 years, a large hall, church, vicarage and school were built followed by about 20 residences. In the twentieth Century, over 170 new buildings were added, mainly in small estates but all were contained in the central area of the village because of effective planning control. Apart from the residential area in the centre of the village, the landscapes have therefore remained little changed since the nineteenth century and vary from the open tidal margins of Morecambe Bay to a patchwork of small fields, except for one area of open grassland on a low limestone hill. The landscapes are described together with the associated habitats using a standard classification. The field boundaries were mapped and are also shown and consist mainly of hedgerows but with walls on the shallow limestone soils and the habitats vary from small deciduous woodlands to limestone grassland.

Item Type:	Publication - Report (Technical Report)
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-) UKCEH Fellows
Funders/Sponsors:	UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Additional Keywords:	walls, hedgerows, salt marshes, Enclosure Acts, small fields, housing estates, local history
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	20 Oct 2023 10:39 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/535787

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