Historical background
A low-lying area of common land which includes the first part
to be colonised by squatters, from 1798 onwards.
Key historic landscape characteristics
Enclosures, rhos grazing, small ribbon developments
A pattern of small, geometrically laid-out fields, typical
of early nineteenth-century squatter colonisation. The houses
are generally vernacular in character though very many have
been gentrified by the addition of porches and conservatories.
Building material is generally local field stone.
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