Guidance Openness of the landscape
Index section Openness of the landscape section
Introduction
A landscape's openness is determined by the visible vertical elements in a wide area: tall vegetation (such as woodland, shelter belts and wooded banks) and buildings (towns, villages, solitary houses, farmhouses) in the countryside. The various landscape types varied greatly in their openness, but in the subsequent 100 years much has changed. The inter-landscape differences have diminished greatly. In spite of this, extremes of open and closed landscape do survive.
