[Talk-GB] What is farmland?
Roger Calvert
jrogercalvert at gmail.com
Mon Dec 16 14:27:11 UTC 2019
Round here (Cumbria), that would have sheep on it. When I did school
geography, it was called Rough Pasture.
Roger
On 16/12/2019 14:13, Martin Wynne wrote:
> 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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