The Hoo Peninsula Landscape (Informed Conservation)

by Sarah Newsome, Edward Carpenter, and Peter Kendall

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The Hoo Peninsula is located on the north Kent coast 30 miles east of Central London. This book raises awareness of the positive contribution that the historic environment makes to the Hoo Peninsula by describing how changing patterns of land use and maritime activity over time have given this landscape and seascape its distinctive character.

It uses new information, which involved historic landscape, seascape and farmstead characterisation, aerial photographic mapping and analysis, area assessment of the buildings, detailed survey of key sites and other desk-based research. It takes a thematic view of the major influences on the history and development of the Hoo Peninsula and demonstrates the role that the Peninsula plays in the national story. The book is an important step towards changing the perception that the Hoo Peninsula is an out-of-the-way area, scarred by past development, where the landscape has no heritage value and major infrastructure can be developed with minimum objection.

  • ISBN10 1848022255
  • ISBN13 9781848022256
  • Publish Date 15 November 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Historic England