[Talk-GB] What is farmland?

Martin Wynne martin at templot.com
Mon Dec 16 14:13:46 UTC 2019


I'm happy to use "farmland" to mean cultivated land, whether for cash 
crops, pasture for livestock, haymaking, any farming activity.

But I keep finding myself on land for which none of the available tags 
really seem to apply. There seems to be one missing. For example:

  http://85a.uk/bredon_960x640.jpg

Beyond the hedge is clearly farmland. But I don't think any of 
farmland/grassland/scrub/meadow properly describes the foreground area. 
I believe the technical term is "unimproved grassland" but I would most 
likely call it "hillside". Here is some more of it:

  http://85a.uk/bredon1_960x640.jpg

Is it perhaps "heath"? That usually means an open level area of 
"heather", on acidic sandy soil. The wiki says: "don't use heath for 
areas primarily covered by non-woody plants like grasses - use 
natural=grassland or landuse=meadow instead".

cheers,

Martin.



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