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AbstractHistoric farmsteads make a strong contribution to the character of our landscapes and the diversity of the local scene, but if we want to be strategic in our guidance about future change we find that the evidence base is very weak. We need instead to broaden our analysis, using existing data to adopt a more question-based approach that examines the whole resource in its wider landscape context. This article is a report on such work already in progress. It explores how techniques in digital mapping and recent developments in characterisation can enable us to understand and respond to farmstead change strategically. A pilot project in Hampshire, now being extended into Sussex and the Weald of Kent, has demonstrated that the density and time-depth of farmsteads as well as the rates of survival of different types of steading and building are closely related to patterns of historically-conditioned landscape character and type. This is contributing to a more integrated and richly-textured understanding of both buildings and landscapes.
Lake et al. (Sat,) studied this question.