Thames Basin Heaths, South East Mixed (Wooded)
Author(s): Jeremy Lake
The Thames Basin Heaths, straddling the counties of Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey, extend from the Thames Basin Lowlands in the east, across north Hampshire, north of the Hampshire Downs and through south-east Berkshire towards the dip slope of the Berkshire and Marlborough Downs. This area includes the urban areas of Newbury, Bracknell, Camberley, Aldershot and Weybridge. Of the Character Area, 20% is urban and 80% is open countryside, just over half of which (or 42% of the Character Area as a whole) is in agricultural use. There is a high proportion of woodland cover in the Character Area (25%). The remainder is semi-natural vegetation or common land with17% forming part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
- Report Number:
- 133/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 12
- Keywords:
- Landscape Farmstead Historic
