Abstract

Maintaining and restoring historic landscapes requires attention to native vegetation, cultural artefacts, historic buildings, hedges, stone walls and riparian woodland. One United Kingdom National Lottery scheme, which was launched in 1994, funds preservation of ‘heritage landscapes’. This paper examines the Lottery’s contribution to landscape restoration and rural development. It considers different scales at which restoration is occurring, focusing on three examples. The Leasowes estate is a small yet important example of a landscape garden in the eighteenth-century ‘picturesque’ taste. Croome Park, a National Trust property, boasts 270 hectares of parkland and a neo-Palladian mansion. The 105 sq km of the Malvern Hills is a human-created landscape traceable to prehistory, with landscape features dependent on longstanding grazing practices now threatened by changing farm economics. The article highlights different management approaches as it debates issues affecting landscape restoration and heritage management. Resolving tensions between official policy and cultural values within the community offer directions for further research.

Highlights

  • The Creation of Heritage Landscape preference of the owner (Coones & Patten, 1986, p. 224)

  • Three historic rural landscapes in the English Midlands Améliorer le paysage ou recréer le pittoresque? L'exemple de trois paysages historiques dans la région des Midlands

  • This research was carried out whilst the first author was a visitor in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham

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Improving landscape or recreating the picturesque?

Three historic rural landscapes in the English Midlands Améliorer le paysage ou recréer le pittoresque? L'exemple de trois paysages historiques dans la région des Midlands. Three historic rural landscapes in the English Midlands Améliorer le paysage ou recréer le pittoresque? Robinson, « Improving landscape or recreating the picturesque? », Belgeo [Online], 4 | 2016, Online since 31 December 2016, connection on 01 May 2019. This text was automatically generated on 1 May 2019. Belgeo est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. This research was carried out whilst the first author was a visitor in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham. We are grateful to Dr Annabelle Boulay (University of Derby) for translating our English abstract into French

The Leasowes
Croome Park Estate
The Malvern Heritage Project
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