The key characteristics of South Herefordshire and Over Severn are:

104. South Herefordshire and Over Severn

The key characteristics of South Herefordshire and Over Severn are:

• Fertile, undulating farmland with extensive arable farming.

• Substantial red sandstone farmsteads.

• Large to medium fields with variable, commonly low hedges.

• Ageing hedgerow trees.

• Numerous churches and manor houses in small hamlets.

• Clusters of parkland trees.

• Narrow, meandering floodplain with low hedges, ditches, scattered mature trees and pollarded willows.

• Contrasting steep wooded slopes and gentle riverside slip-off slopes.

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