Mid Severn Sandstone Plateau Western Mixed
Author(s): Jeremy Lake
This is an intensively farmed, rolling estate landscape, together with wooded landscapes in the Severn Gorge and Wyre Forest and the post-industrial landscapes of the Shirebrookdale coalfield. This area lies around the catchment of a central section of the Severn and the lower Stour rivers. To the west and south-west, the land rises out of the Severn Valley to the Shropshire Hills and Herefordshire Plateau. To the east, it rises out of the Stour Valley to meet the Black Country and Arden. In the south, the rolling landform gradually subsides into the Severn and Avon Vales while, in the north, there is a transition to the clays of the Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain. Of the area, 16% is urban, 12% is woodland.
- Report Number:
- 70/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 15
- Keywords:
- Landscape Farmstead Historic
