The key characteristics of Hensbarrow are . . .

154. Hensbarrow

The key characteristics of Hensbarrow are . . .

• Remnants of what must once have been more extensive and exposed, windswept, heather moorland. 

• On the lower and more sheltered areas, there is a pattern of irregular small pastoral fields enclosed by Cornish hedges, scattered farmsteads and hamlets.

• Sheltered, wooded valleys with willow scrub and fast-flowing streams.

• Dispersed settlement pattern of hamlets and farmsteads with villages of mainly recent, industrial origin. Pylons feature strongly in the landscape.

• China clay works originally with white conical spoil heaps - now re-shaped mainly to flat-topped spoil heaps.

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