Design Guide Part 3 - North York Moors National Park

APPENDIX CLANDSCAPE CHARACTER TYPE DESCRIPTORSLandscape TypeKey LandscapeCharacteristicsSettlementPatternVegetation patternand characteristics5 Limestone Hills(continued)Helmsley ✔Hutton Buscel° ✔Hutton Le Hole ✔ Lastingham ✔°Levisham ✔°°Lockton ✔°Newton On RawcliffeOld Byland ✔°Oswaldkirk ✔°PockleyScawtonSinnington ✔°SpauntonThornton Le Dale ✔°West/East Ayton ✔°• The largely openelevated landscapeallows extensivelong distance views,sometimes brokenby often regularlyshaped plantationswhich are mainlyconiferous.• Boundary treatmentsare commonly drystone walls and area distinctive featureof some villages suchas Hutton Buscel.• Fields of medium to large sizeand regular shape areintermixed with areas ofmedium sized in a strip patternwith smaller strip fields close tosettlements.• Fields are bounded by wirefences or closely trimmed orovergrown hedges with theoccasional hedgerow trees orare unbounded.• Occasional walls are present.• Coniferous shelterbelts occuron the plateau.• Deciduous woodland is scarceon the plateau.6 Narrow Glacial Channeland Griffs• Narrow steep sidedvalleys with anarrow flat valleyfloor aligned in anorth – southdirection.• Upper valley sidesoften marked byimpressive cliffs.• Small becks are outof scale and followa sinuous hiddentree line course.• A small area ofland stretchingnorthwards fromPickering.• Occasional smallsettlements, farmsand houses.• Valley sides are mostly clothedin a mixture of deciduouswoodland or coniferousplantation.• The majority of deciduouswoodland comprises seminatural or replanted ancientwoodland.• Where the upper dale isincluded within the type it ismore open and clothed mostlywith bracken, with occasionalpatches of heather, uplandgrass moor and scrub.• Narrow, steepsided, well woodedvalleys.76