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adjacent coppices, the farming regime of the nearby downs extendsacross the valley largely uninterrupted.Key Characteristics• Steep sided valley gradually spreading out into downland to thenorth• Important chalk stream habitat• Farmland linking downland and valley bottom• Linear village• Road pattern follows valley floor• Undeveloped and unspoilt rural characterKey Features• Crichel Park• Long Crichel villageView across north-westwards over the Long Crichel valleyThe landscape is extensively farmed, with a number of large farms sitedalong the valley. Each farm complex comprises a compact grouping oftraditional and modern buildings that stands out against the open,sometimes tree-less landscape.North of the village, beyond Higher Farm, the landscape merges with thesweeping open downland landscape. From the elevated ThickthornDown, the view further north is quite different: suddenly becoming lushwith the woods and copses associated with Chettle.Immediately to the east of Chetterwood is Crichel Park. The house andpark have a strong influence on the landscape character of theimmediate area.East Dorset District Council District Landscape Character Assessment 200825
7) Lower Winterborne ValleyContextLandscape Character Type: Chalk river valleyLandscape Description Unit No. 399DescriptionA continuation of a character area identified in the adjacent localauthority area draining from the wider North Winterborne Valley to thenorth west.The valley bottom of the Winterborne, west of Newton Peverill, consistsof Valley Gravel, and separates two areas of chalk downland to the northand south. Copses and hedgerows along the length of the valleycontribute to a sense of containment and the dry valley extendingnorthwards from East Almer creates a more irregular landform.The valley of the Winterborne has a long history of associated habitation,focused in three early settlements at Mapperton, West Almer and EastAlmer, all set at the edge or just to the north of the boundary of the valleygravel and the chalk. These settlements are recorded in DomesdayBook. Moorcourt Farm also has very early origins. This area wassurrounded by open fields until being subject to the Enclosures in 1845.View from the valley floor north-eastwards towards Westley WoodThere is an attractive view of Almer Manor and the adjacent church fromthe A.31 to the south east.Mapperton lies at the bottom of a shallow dry valley to the north west ofthe River Winterborne, enclosed by low downland hills to the north andsouth.East Dorset District Council District Landscape Character Assessment 200826
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adjacent coppices, the farming regime of the nearby downs extendsacross the valley largely uninterrupted.Key <strong>Character</strong>istics• Steep sided valley gradually spreading out into downland to thenorth• Important chalk stream habitat• Farmland linking downland and valley bottom• Linear village• Road pattern follows valley floor• Undeveloped and unspoilt rural characterKey Features• Crichel Park• Long Crichel villageView across north-westwards over the Long Crichel valleyThe landscape is extensively farmed, with a number of large farms sitedalong the valley. Each farm <strong>com</strong>plex <strong>com</strong>prises a <strong>com</strong>pact grouping oftraditional and modern buildings that stands out against the open,sometimes tree-less landscape.North of the village, beyond Higher Farm, the landscape merges with thesweeping open downland landscape. From the elevated ThickthornDown, the view further north is quite different: suddenly be<strong>com</strong>ing lushwith the woods and copses associated with Chettle.Immediately to the east of Chetterwood is Crichel Park. The house andpark have a strong influence on the landscape character of theimmediate area.<strong>East</strong> <strong>Dorset</strong> District Council District <strong>Landscape</strong> <strong>Character</strong> <strong>Assessment</strong> 200825
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