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Devon County Council Historic Environment Team
County Hall
Topsham Road
Exeter
Devon
EX2 4QD
The main products of the project comprise a number of GIS map layers and a report. The map layers cover all of Devon, including the Unitary Authorities of Plymouth and Torbay, but excluding the part of Devon within Exmoor National Park. (A Somerset and Exmoor National Park Historic Landscape Characterisation was completed in 2001.)
The Devon HLC covers well over 6000km2. Data relating to each individual block of a specific landscape character 'type' was recorded. The project used three principle sources to inform the character mapping:
The HLC mapping was undertaken at a scale of 1:10,000 for use at 1:25,000 or smaller. The smallest individual polygons mapped were 1ha., so the project provides an extremely detailed model of Devon's historic landscape character.
In order to reflect changes in historic character through time, the project database was designed to allow a sequence of character types to be recorded for each polygon. This feature allows the user of the HLC to model modern, post-medieval, and earlier landscape character and land-use at any scale.
The final raw HLC spatial data ('rawhlc.shp') presents polygons for the whole of the county. Attached to each polygon in the shapefile is all the data relating to that polygon from the project database.
There are also a number of views of the data provided as shapefiles: