The land was divided into touns or townships, comprising an area of cultivable " in-bye " land and a larger area of pasture and rough grazing.
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This geology has given rise to a well-drained, sandy lowland landscape supporting a mosaic of oak-birch woodland, conifer plantations, open sandy heaths, and rough grazed pastures.
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The post-glacial landscape is an open mosaic of heather and rough grazing that includes 8 habitats of European importance and many plant species of international, national and regional significance.
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Much of the higher ground in the valley was devoted to rough grazing and also held in common, this land comprising Preston and Nutley Down, Southwood Green, and Oakhills Common.
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The lower eastern area, adjacent to the stream, seems to have been largely turned over to rough grazing although there are indications that it was also heaped with mounds of rubble.
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Crops and fallow land accounts for 30 % of the land area, grasses and rough grazing 36 %, other agricultural land 5 %, forest and woodland 8 %, and urban development 21 %.
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Most of the rough grazing that the cows took part in contained plant species such as coarse grasses, sedges, rushes, and plants such as heather ( also known as " calluna vulgaris " ).
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In the 1980s new red brick shopping areas and housing have extended the centre of the village where rough grazing for horses previously existed, and added a new supermarket unit, other shops and office space.
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In the late 1990s, the area was identified as suitable for environmental management as it had been untenanted for several years, and as rough grazing pasture it was a rich and scarce ecological habitat which also had recreational potential.
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Instead of heading to bed at sundown, lulled to sleep by bleating goats on this rough grazing land, she now can stay up with friends and family in her house in Cacheuta Sur, 35 miles ( 55 kms ) outside Mendoza, in western Argentina.
