'Wider Famed Countries': Historic Landscape Characterisation in the Midland Shires

Abstract

Historic Landscape Characterisation is the most significant methodology within recent initiatives to understand and manage the historic landscape in the UK. This paper will examine a particular form of regional landscape created by enclosure and the popularisation of foxhunting during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the 'shires'. It will argue that characterisation programmes are ill-equipped to recognise cultural processes that have shaped the landscape through the short and medium term and, as a result, we risk losing local landscape character and diversity. It also questions how characterisation defines and engages with 'communities' as demanded by the European Landscape Convention.

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