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145. Exmoor
• A diverse upland landscape, rising abruptly out of the surrounding lowlands and ending in a high and spectacular cliffed coastline with coastal heath at the edge of the Bristol Channel.
• Central high, treeless heather and grass moorlands used for rough grazing.
• Extensive 19th century moorland-edge enclosures and farms with beech-topped hedgebanks and beech windbreaks.
• Steep, wooded inland valleys and steep, coastal combes.
• Regular, straight-sided fields usually enclosed by earth banks and stone walls.
• Villages and farmsteads nestle in sheltered valley bottoms.
• Wooded lower slopes in some places, some with former deer parks.
• Slates and sandstones used in older buildings.
• Complex and visually outstanding coastline of headlands, steep cliffs and coves.
• High archaeological interest of Bronze Age monuments such as hill-forts.
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.
