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CHAPTER 1
Looking at Southern England's
Landscapes
FIRST APPROACHES
T HE WORD LANDSCAPE has different meanings for different people, and the best
way to illustrate the meaning I have adopted in this topic is to look at an example. I have
chosen a landscape in the northwest corner of Norfolk, part of our East Anglia Region
(Fig. 1).
FIG 1 . Landscape of the northwest corner of Norfolk. (Copyright Norfolk Museums and Ar-
chaeology Service & Derek A. Edwards)
My approach is to focus first on the natural features that we can call landforms, be-
cause they have distinctive shapes that directly reflect the processes that formed them.
In this Norfolk landscape, coastline landforms are clearly defined but are remarkably
varied, ranging from sea cliffs to sandy beaches, gravel spits, wind-blown dunes and salt
marshes. Inland, the main features in this photo are the groups of buildings that form the
villages and the edge of the town of Hunstanton, and the pattern of fields and woods.
All of these are man-made features and are best understood by following the work of
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