Historical background
An area of early nineteenth-century enclosures on what was
previously common land. Many of the settlements were abandoned
during the great depression owing to the difficulties of obtaining
dole for anyone who had any agricultural land.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Nineteenth-century enclosures, dispersed settlement
Within the enclosed landscape there has evolved a distinctive
pattern of vernacular dwellings, usually a crog-lofft, often
rebuilt or surviving adjacent to, or contiguous with, a substantial
late nineteenth-century farmhouse. There are some short rows
of terraced housing. Building material is generally field stones.
Several of the dispersed dwellings are second homes, and many
have been altered by the addition of porches and conservatories.
Horses are kept on many of the smallholdings, and in some cases
wooden fences have been built on the stone field walls giving
the area a quite distinctive character.
The area includes one small nucleation, the hamlet of Nebo,
centred on, and deriving its name from, a nonconformist chapel.
The buildings are here substantially constructed.
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