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Indicator: Landscape features-hedges, stone walls and ponds S5
Changes in characteristic countryside features: 1984 to 1998  
a) Hedges and walls  
Indicator Chart
Hedges
cross 1970
curvey 1990
curvey Strategy [1]

Coverage: England and Wales

Source: Defra

b) Walls, banks/strips and ponds  
Indicator Chart
Walls, banks etc.
Change since
cross 1970
curvey 1990
curvey 1990
Ponds
Change since
dots 1970
tick 1990
tick 1996

Coverage: Great Britain

Source: Defra

Objective: Protection for individual landscape features, such as hedges, dry stone walls and ponds
  • The length of hedges and walls in Great Britain reduced between 1984 and 1990, but has since stabilised.
  • The length of banks and strips has remained fairly constant throughout the period, whereas between 1996 and 1998 the number of ponds increased by 6 per cent.
Note: [1] 1993 (hedges), 1990 (relict hedges)

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