Landscapes & Geology

General reports

National Character Areas (NCAs) are natural subdivisions of England based on a combination of landscape, biodiversity, geodiversity and economic activity. They are defined by Natural England and there are 159 of them. The Howard Hills area is NCA No.29. You can download a description of the area:

• Natural England National Character Area Profile

Historic England's National Mapping Programme (NMP) is intended to ensure effective and consistent use of aerial photographs and latterly airborne laser scanning data (lidar) to identify, map, record and better understand archaeological sites and landscapes. There is a report on the Howarding Hills Mapping Project:

• Historic England Howardian Hills Mapping Project

Hollin Hill Landslide

Equipment has been installed on Hollin Hill, Low Mowthorpe by the British Geological Survey (BGS) to monitor the landslide in the area. There is information on the project here:

• Hollin Hill Landslide Observatory is an introduction to the project and to the geology.
• Landslide research at the British Geological Survey: capture, storage and interpretation on a national and site-specific scale by C V L Pennington, C Foster, J E Chambers and G O Jenkins is a more detailed paper setting the project in context and presenting some results of the survey.