UAD Medieval Polygons

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Cheshire West and Chester Council
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10 June 2019
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Summary

The Chester Urban Characterisation is part of a national programme developed and funded by English Heritage and encompasses the civil parishes of Chester Non parish, Chester Castle and Great Boughton.

This characterization of the city of Chester is based primarily on archaeological evidence, rather than on the relatively recent historic urban development. The Medieval period is primarily based on remains recovered during archaeological investigations in the city.

Human activity and social organisation have an impact on the landscape which is often visible today. Historic Landscape Characterisation involves the examination of the modern landscape, in order to infer the historic processes that have formed that landscape as it is seen today. This characterization of the city of Chester is based primarily on archaeological evidence, rather than on the relatively recent historic development that tend to define Historic Landscape Characterization (HLC) or Extensive Urban Survey (EUS) projects, however there is some consideration of documentary and cartographic sources for the later period mapping. The collated data is held in a database, which can be analysed to produce broad or detailed historic landscape classifications, answer specific questions or map change and whose results can be displayed through a Geographic Information System to produce map based interpretative models.

Characterisation aims to improve our understanding and appreciation of the urban landscape; by interpreting how past communities have contributed to its form and appearance. It creates an important body of knowledge and a tool to help make informed decisions on conservation and development proposals from a strategic level.

Attribute - Description HLCUID - HLC Unique Identifier BroadTypeDec - name of dataset BroadTypeCode - code for dataset HLCTypeDesc - name of archaeological character type HLCTypeCode - code for archaeological character type Name - Name of character zone Summary - brief text on definition of character type xgEdited - Date/Editor of Last CHER Edit ShapeLength - Perimeter of the polygon in Meters ShapeArea - Area of polygon in Square Meters

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Added to data.gov.uk
2014-11-28T00:00:00
Access contraints
Not specified
Harvest GUID
1957
Extent
Latitude: 53.213942° to 53.163981°
Longitude: -2.942574° to -2.838518°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::Nat. Grid GB
Dataset reference date
2013-03-01 (publication)
Frequency of update
009
Responsible party
Cheshire Historic Environment Record, Archaeology Planning Advisory Service (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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