An important milestone has been achieved in the English Heritage ‘Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project’, designed to substantially increase understanding of the Hoo Peninsula’s historic landscape and enable better informed inputs to the future changes envisaged for this part of the Thames Estuary.
One module of that project, the ‘Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape and Historic Seascape Characterisation (HLC-HSC)’ has been successfully completed on time. This module focussed on identifying the dominant historical processes that have shaped the present landscape and seascape on and around the Hoo Peninsula. The HSC’s marine and maritime perspective took in such aspects as shipping routes past and present, anchorages and shell-fishing areas, but also extended onto coastal land to encompass daymarks and the previous character of land reclaimed from the sea, including early salt-making areas and coastal grazing land.
The completed module is now providing vital landscape/seascape contextual information for the wider Hoo Project’s other modules and integrated report. The HLC and HSC datasets are designed to be interoperable with other map-based planning and environmental datasets. Many of those are incorporated within SeaZone HydroSpatial Topic Layers, thereby facilitating a faster and smoother application workflow for English Heritage and other prospective users. Read More
