The Historic Landscape Character Areas (HLCAs)
HLCA 001 South Wales Main Line (Great Western and Port Talbot Railways) and Newlands Loop Rail Corridor
Communication corridor: rail. Back to Map
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HLCA 002 Margam Moors
Reclaimed and enclosed salt marsh wetland pasture; medieval/post-medieval fields and former medieval monastic grange land, varied field pattern with typical ridge and furrow, earth bank and drainage features. Back to Map
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HLCA 003 Margam Burrows
Coastal sand dunes, with recent industrial intrusion; medieval warren; 20th century military/defensive landscape. Back to Map
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HLCA 004 Kenfig Burrows
Unenclosed burrows; buried archaeology: medieval settlement/fields, ie be-sanded Kenfig, military/defensive: Kenfig Castle; associated medieval ecclesiastical features; post-medieval rabbit warren; characteristic field boundaries; prehistoric find scatters; communications corridor; historic associations. Back to Map
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HLCA 005 Margam and Kenfig Sands
Present-day intertidal zone; intertidal features: post-medieval wrecks; buried archaeology: prehistoric - post-medieval find scatters; modern industrial/military structures; historic associations.Back to Map
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HLCA 006 River Kenfig and Llanmihangel
Agricultural landscape of post-medieval settlement/fields with surviving relict medieval features associated principally with monastic grange of Llanmihangel (St Michael's); distinctive field boundaries; Ancient and other broadleafed woodland; post-medieval vernacular buildings; historic associations.Back to Map
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HLCA 007 Kenfig and Mawdlam
Post-medieval settlement and agricultural landscape with medieval precursor; medieval and post-medieval fields; distinctive boundaries; ribbon development settlement pattern; post-medieval vernacular buildings; ecclesiastical features; communications: footpaths, tracks and straight lanes; historic associations. Back to Map
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HLCA 008 Kenfig Golf Course
Open area of stabilised sand dunes; recreational use - managed and in use as golf course; buried archaeology; communications. Back to Map
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HLCA 009 Sker
Medieval/post-medieval agricultural landscape; distinctive field boundaries; relict and buried archaeology, primarily prehistoric funerary and ritual; ecclesiastic: medieval monastic grange; medieval/post-medieval vernacular architecture; historic associations. Back to Map
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HLCA 010 Sker Point to Porthcawl Point
Coastal and intertidal zone; unenclosed common; intertidal features; historic associations; minor communications and distinctive boundaries. Back to Map
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HLCA 011 M4 Motorway Corridor
Major road transport corridor; civil engineering: road and motorway bridges. Back to Map
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HLCA 012 Merthyr Mawr
Post-medieval gentry estate: house, parkland and garden, and associated estate village; varied settlement pattern; post-medieval vernacular, picturesque and polite estate architecture; post-medieval agricultural landscape; distinctive field boundaries; relict prehistoric and medieval settlement/fields. Back to Map
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HLCA 013 Merthyr Mawr Warren
Nationally important unenclosed be-sanded landscape; multi-period and multi-functional landscape; post-medieval rabbit warren. Back to Map
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HLCA 014 Candleston
Manorial centre of Candleston Castle set within an area of mixed agricultural and wooded landscape (including Ancient Woodland) on the fringe of Merthyr Mawr Warren; relict archaeology: medieval and post-medieval settlement/fields (including fortified manor); buried archaeology; historic associations. Back to Map
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HLCA 015 Newton Point to Black Rocks, Ogmore-by-Sea
Intertidal zone at mouth of Ogmore River (Aberogwr); relict archaeological intertidal features. Back to Map
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016 Ogmore Down
Unenclosed common; recreational open space; Ancient and other broadleafed woodland; with a small multi-period relict archaeological landscape element with communication features. Back to Map
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017 Ochr Draw and Island Farm
Largely post-medieval agricultural landscape, with evolved but fairly regular field pattern and distinctive boundaries; post-medieval agricultural settlement; communications corridor including line of Roman road (Caerleon-Loughor) and public/industrial rail. Back to Map
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018 Ogmore
Nucleated-organic shrunken settlement and medieval ringwork/stone castle strategically located within agricultural/floodplain landscape with enclosures of medieval or earlier origin; buildings of architectural interest; multi-period relict archaeological landscape including prehistoric promontory fort and medieval ecclesiastical features Ancient and other braodleafed woodland; communication corridor and historic associations. Back to Map
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