Environmental Engineering Reference
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In contrast the entire western end of the peninsula, west of a line from Landimore to Port-Eynon, is a
landscape dominated byenclosure hedgerows.Thewildlife value ofthese hedgesmaybelessthanthat of
the assart areas, but it is still important. The areas of enclosure are still very much as they appear on the
estate and parish maps of the late eighteenth century and the hedges are thus at least 200 years old. The
fields are not over-large, the hedgerow network is still relatively dense and the hedges are often very sub-
stantial, providing a good habitat for breeding birds, and species such as yellowhammer and song thrush
Turdus philomelos
are frequently recorded.
