Historic landscapes

In 1999, Kent County Council and English Heritage commissioned the Oxford Archaeological Unit to undertake a Kent Historic Landscape Characterisation. The characterisation included Medway.

This project was designed to enhance the current landscape characterisation of Kent and forms a part of English Heritage's programme to assist local authorities to produce Historic Landscape Character Assessments.

The main aim of the Kent Historic Landscape Characterisation project was to produce a digital map of Kent's Historic Landscape Types. Associated explanatory text was included that would:

• enhance the setting up of development plans, structural planning programmes, development control and conservation activities
• establish a framework, for future historic landscape assessment and research activities within Kent, in conjunction with the complimentary county-wide landscape assessment.

In 2001, a document was produced and this publication can be viewed on the Kent Landscape Information System.