Main entry:

Coleman, Alice, 1923-2023

Title & Author:

Land use survey handbook : an explanation of the second land use survey of Britain on the scale of 1:25,000 / [illus. by] K.R.A. Magga.

Edition:

4th (Scottish) ed.

Publication:

Ramsgate : Isle of Thanet Geographical Association, 1964.

Description:

31 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Handbook to original survey issued as The Land Utilisation Survey of Britain: an outline description of the first twelve one inch maps, by L.D. Stamp and E.C. Willatts.
Introducing the 1:25,000 land use survey of Britain -- The nature of the land use survey. A scale of 1:25,000 ; 78 square miles per sheet area ; Volunteer surveyors ; Synoptic picture ; Land use categories to be mapped -- Land use categories in the new survey. Settlement (residential and commercial): grey ; Industry: red ; Transport: orange ; Derelict land: black stipple ; Open spaces: lime green ; Grassland: light green ; Arable land: light brown ; Market gardening: purple ; Orchards: purple stripes ; Woodland: dark green ; Heathland, moorland and rough land: yellow ; Water and marsh: blue ; Unvegetated land: white -- Technique of field mapping -- Financial basis of the survey -- Reduction and deposition of maps -- Land use reports -- Appendix 1: Practical identification of crops. Cereals ; Ley legumes ; Rootcrops ; Green fodder ; Industrial crops ; Market gardening and orchards -- Appendix 2. Salt marsh ; Freshwater marsh ; Rhacomitrium and alpine heath. HA ; Heather and bilberry. HC/HV/HCV ; Wet sphagnum. HS ; Dry sphagnum, HES ; Cotton grass and deer sedge. HE.v ; Bracken. H Pt ;Gorse and broom. HU ; Grass moor. HGM, HGN, HGF (or HG) ; Mixed communities.

Resources:
Donor bookplate

Subject:

Land use Great Britain.
Utilisation du sol Grande-Bretagne.
Land use.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Handbooks.

Added entries:

Land use Survey of Britain; 2nd

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269839
Call No.: BIB 202271
Status: Available