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Landscape Character

  • 1 Bay and Estuary (PDF 1.3MB)
  • 1a Intertidal Flats (PDF 43KB)
  • 1b Coastal Marsh (PDF 39KB)   
  • 2 Coastal Margins (PDF 1.9MB)
  • 2a Dunes and Beaches (PDF 43KB)
  • 2b Coastal Mosses (PDF 37KB)
  • 2c Coastal Plain (PDF 43KB)
  • 2d Coastal Urban Fringe (PDF 46KB)    
  • 3 Coastal Limestone (PDF 2MB)
  • 3a Open Farmland and Pavement (PDF 42KB)
  • 3b Wooded Hill and Pavements (PDF 43KB)
  • 3c Disturbed Areas (PDF 31KB)    
  • 4 Coastal Sandstone (PDF 1.5MB)  
  • 5 Lowland (PDF 1.6MB)
  • 5a Ridge and Valley (PDF 49KB)
  • 5b Low Farmland (PDF 47KB)
  • 5c Rolling Lowland (PDF 42KB)
  • 5d Urban Fringe (PDF 37KB)
  • 5e Drained Mosses (PDF 28KB) 
  • 6 Intermediate Farmland (PDF 1.6MB)
  • 7 Drumlins (PDF 1.3MB)
  • 7a Low Drumlins (PDF 39KB)
  • 7b Drumlin Field (PDF 43KB)
  • 7c Sandy Knolls and Ridges (PDF 27KB) 
  • 8 Main Valleys (PDF 1.7MB)
  • 8a Gorges (PDF 38KB)
  • 8b Broad Valleys (PDF 45KB)
  • 8c Valley Corridors (PDF 35KB)
  • 8d Dales (48KB)   
  • 9 Intermediate Moorland and Plateau (PDF 1.9MB)
  • 9a Open Moorlands (PDF 37KB)
  • 9b Rolling Farmland and Heath (PDF 37KB)
  • 9c Forest (PDF 37KB)
  • 9d Ridges (PDF 38KB)
  • 10 Sandstone Ridge (PDF 2MB)

  • 11 Upland Fringes (PDF 1.5MB)
  • 11a Foothills (PDF 40KB)
  • 11b Low Fells (PDF 34KB) 
  • 12 Higher Limestone (PDF 1.5MB)
  • 12a Limestone Farmland (PDF 41KB)
  • 12b Rolling Fringe (PDF 38KB)
  • 12c Limestone Foothills (PDF 39KB)
  • 12d Moorland and Commons (PDF 39KB)
  • Guidance (PDF 4.5MB) 
  • 13 Fells and Scarps (PDF 2.6MB)
  • 13a Scarps (PDF 37KB)
  • 13b Moorland, High Plateau (PDF 38KB)
  • 13c Fells (PDF 48KB)  
  • Toolkit (PDF 1.7MB)   
Introduction

The Cumbria Landscape Character Guidance and Toolkit maps and describes the character of different landscape types across the county and provides guidance to help maintain their distinctiveness. Download the whole document in Part 1 or select the landscapes you're interested in separately. Part 2 explains what landscape character assessments are and why all landscapes matter.

Part 1
  • Cumbria Landscape Character guidance (PDF 4.5MB)
Part 2
  • Cumbria Landscape Character toolkit (PDF 1.1MB)
Landscape maps
  • All Cumbria map (PDF 541KB)
  • Cumbria insert map key (PDF 430KB)
  • North Cumbria map (PDF 2.4MB)
  • North-West Cumbria map (PDF 2.3MB)
  • South Cumbria map (PDF 2.3MB)
  • South-West Cumbria map (PDF 2.1MB)
  • East Cumbria map (PDF 2.3MB)
  • West Cumbria map (1.9MB)
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