The key characteristics of Lancashire and Amounderness Plain are:

32. Lancashire and Amounderness Plain

The key characteristics of the Lancashire and Amounderness Plain are:


• Relatively flat and gently rolling plain broken by isolated hills such as Parbold Hill, Beacon Park and Ashurst's Beacon.

• Large scale agricultural landscape with a patchwork of pasture and arable fields and blocks of wind sculptured mixed woodland.

• Medium- to large-scale field pattern with a high density of field ponds to the east and extensive drainage systems of raised ditches and dykes to the west.

• Remnants of lowland mires and mosses in the west.

• Salt marshes are prominent at the head of estuaries.

• A rectilinear network of lanes and tracks, commonly without fences or hedges.

• Predominantly isolated brick farmsteads in rural areas with the main urban settlement concentrated in the planned Victorian coastal resorts and inland towns.

For further details on this character area and for an introduction to the region, please see the PDF documents in the box at the top right hand side of this page.