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48. Trent and Belvoir Vales
• Gently undulating landform, with shallow ridges dropping down gently to broad river valleys.
• Open, arable or mixed farmed landscape, strongly rural in feel, with trimmed hedges and few hedgerow trees; woodlands only locally significant.
• Frequent nucleated villages with red brick houses, roofed with pantiles, and spired churches prominent in long views.
• Large market towns with historic centres and substantial churches visible from afar, notably Newark, Grantham, Southwell, Lincoln.
• Subtle variations within the area from the remote and pastoral landscape of the Vale of Belvoir, to the more undulating and wooded farmland north-east of Nottingham and the open arable lands to the north and east.
• Urban development closely confined to major centres, in particular the outskirts of Nottingham.
• Elsewhere the open, undeveloped and rural character strongly influenced locally by power stations, pylons and sand and gravel extraction on the Trent floodplain.
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