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Wyre

Landscape character over varied topography. The Kidderminster
sandlands have been considerably impacted
North Worcestershire generally can be by intensive agriculture, but there remain
characterised as a rolling agricultural and some excellent examples of nutrient-poor
wooded landscape in which sandstones are acidic pastures.
marked by low hills and the softer rocks by
the valleys. The contrast of hard rocks to the The Worcestershire Green Infrastructure
north and west and the softer rock in the Partnership has considered the way in which
central areas give North-Worcestershire the landscape character, biodiversity and historic

appearance of being a shallow basin environment contribute towards character
surrounded by a rim of higher ground, across the county and has identified 30
forming the catchment of the River Severn distinctive Green Infrastructure
and its tributaries, the Stour, Salwarpe and Environmental Character Areas (ECA).
Avon. To the North-West the hard More information can be found on the
Carboniferous deposits form a distinctive website of Worcestershire County Council
plateau whereas to the North-East the www.worcestershire.gov.uk/GI and a
southern edge of the Birmingham Plateau landscape character assessment mapping
21 embraces the Clent and Lickey Hills.

The area west of the Severn contains large
areas of relatively intact ancient countryside,
much of which is of high biodiversity
importance. The Severn Valley is
characterised by noticeable river terraces as
distinct steps in the landscape, formed when

this river cut its new valley from Ironbridge to
Stourport after the last Ice Age. The
Chaddesley/Dodford area forms a swathe of
relatively intact ancient countryside, which is
of particular importance for ancient
woodlands and traditional grasslands. The
Kinver and Habberley area, to the northwest
of Kidderminster and Stourport, is well
wooded.

It features significant heathland and wooded
heath remnants on nutrient poor, acidic soils

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