The key characteristics of the Mease/Sense Lowlands are:

72. Mease/Sense Lowlands

The key characteristics of the Mease/Sense Lowlands are:

• Gently-rolling landform of low rounded hills and valleys. 
Flat land along river valleys.

• Extensive, very open areas of arable cultivation.

• Strongly rectilinear hedge pattern of late enclosure, often dominating an open landscape.

• Tree cover confined to copses, spinneys, intermittent hedgerow trees and parks.

• Scattered large parks with imposing mansions. 
Small red-brick villages, often on hilltop sites and with prominent church spires.

• Ridge and furrow and deserted settlements.

• Isolated 19th century farmsteads.

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