Dumpdon Hillfort, Luppitt, Honiton: Historic Landscape Survey

This assessment has been informed by a proportionate level of information sufficient to enable a good understanding of the site. The research undertaken to inform the project cannot be considered exhaustive insofar as other information or sources may come to light in the future that contribute further understanding or dispute the established narrative. At the time of issue, the research and previous site assessment (Parfitt 2025) that has informed the research project is considered a robust and comprehensive account of the Elmbridge Decoy Site. The data has been collected from a wide variety of sources, summarised in Table 2.1. Source Data National Heritage List for England (NHLE) Current information relating to designated heritage assets, and heritage assets considered to be 'at risk'. The National Archives No documents are identified that refer specifically to the site or works undertaken to establish the decoy. There is a large collection of documents mostly deposited by the Ministry of Works that discuss the development of the decoy concept and span the evolution of tactics and methods used to create particular types of bomb Decoy Site. Worcestershire Historic Environment Record (HER) Heritage sites and events records, Historic Landscape Characterisation (HLC) data, and other spatial data supplied in digital format (shapefiles) and hardcopy. Historic England Archive (HEA) Additional sites and events records, supplied in digital and hardcopy formats. Worcestershire Archives Historic mapping, historic documentation, and relevant published and grey literature. Historic England's Aerial Photograph Research Unit Vertical and oblique aerial photography ranging in date from the 1940s to present. RAF Museum Collections Additional publications, grey literature and other materials specific to the RAF. Imperial War Museum Collections Additional publications, grey literature and other materials specific to the history of British conflict. Defra Data Services Platform (environment.data.gov.uk) LiDAR imagery and point cloud data, available from the Defra Data Services Platform 8 Fibden Farm Decoy Site, Worcestershire, Research Project � Cotswold Archaeology Source Data Genealogist, Envirocheck, National Library of Scotland & other cartographic websites Historic (Ordnance Survey and Tithe) mapping in digital format. British Geological Survey (BGS) website UK geological mapping (bedrock & superficial deposits) & borehole data. Table 2.1 Key data sources Aerial photographs held at Historic England Archive Aerial photographs held at Historic England were examined as part of this assessment, ranging in date from 1946 to 2014. The aerial photographs show that the site has been utilised as arable and pastoral farmland and that no large developments have occurred on the site since 1946. No direct evidence of the Decoy Site was present in the photographs. LiDAR imagery Existing DEFRA data was analysed with the specific aim of clarifying the extent any potential archaeological remains. Lidar DTM (Digital Terrain Model) and DSM (Digital Surface Model) ASCII files were downloaded from the DEFRA portal (environment.data.gov.uk), under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The lidar data was surveyed in 2019 and available at 1m for DTM and DSM resolution for the extent of the site boundary and buffer. The lidar files contain British National Grid as the "native" coordinate reference system. Where necessary, individual lidar datasets were combined into a mosaic raster dataset using Esri ArcGIS Pro 3.4.2 and exported as a single raster (.tif). The lidar file was then processed using Relief Visualisation Toolbox (RVT) (Kokalj et al 2019 and Zakaek et al 2011) to create several single and blended visualisations. Visualisations were created following Historic England guidelines (HE 2018) and guidance in Airbourne Laser Scanning Raster Visualisation: A guide to good practice (Kokalj & Hesse 2017).

Photographic and written record of power station buildings accompanied by archival research. Ratcliffe on Soar was one of 10 coal-fired power stations based around the 500MW turbo-generator set built by the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) during the 1960s; released for construction in 1963, the plant was completed in 1967 and first commissioned in 1968. Together with Cottam and West Burton in Bassetlaw District, it is one of three such 'super-stations' of 2,000MW capacity within the lower Trent Valley. In response to increasing awareness and concern regarding anthropogenic climate change, however, government policy has shifted away from fossil fuels, and the 1960s coal-fired stations have been sequentially shut down and decommissioned, with demolition their ultimate fate. Ratcliffe-on-Soar was the final station to close, ceasing generation at the end of September 2024 when, for the first time since the opening of Holborn Junction power station (the Edison Electric Light Station) in London in 1882, the UK has no coal-fired capacity, marking the end of a 142-year long era in the history of national electricity generation. The power satation is located on the south bank of the River Trent in south-west Nottinghamshire, close to its confluence with the Soar, hard on the border with Derbyshire to the north-west (with which the Trent here forms the county boundary) and with Leicestershire to the south-west (the county boundary formed by the Soar). It lies immediately north-east of the village of Ratcliffe on Soar and 1km south-west of Thrumpton, lying c.12km south-west of the county town of Nottingham. It is located within the civil parish of Ratcliffe on Soar and the administrative district of Rushcliffe. The power station comprises a standard grouping of structures based around the generating core of boiler house, turbine hall with attached control room, and precipitator block, served by a single chimney to the north and a massive, enclosed 400kV switch-house located axially to the south. A total of eight natural-draught cooling towers are arranged in a single field to the west of the generation buildings, while an extensive coaling plant, associated stock area and enclosing rail loop are sited to the east. All constituent buildings of the plant are described to a level commensurate with a 'Level 2' record as defined by Historic England, cross-referenced to a comprehensive photographic record and illustrated with copies of original design drawings/diagrams and early photographs as appropriate. Further, a review of the readily available archival sources at the National Archives, the Nottinghamshire Archives and on-site at the power station itself, allowed for a context, both historical and technical, to be established in which to interpret the form and function of the site and its component parts. The station as a whole is considered within its landscape setting, and its 'Heritage Values' are assessed in evidential, historical, aesthetic and communal terms, in line with Historic England guidelines. The programme of historic building recording allowed for a detailed study and record of the buildings, their construction, operation and general developmental history to be made, so far as possible from a non-intrusive survey, in accordance with current Historic England guidance. Together with similar studies at a number of contemporary power station sites, it forms part of a significant 'preservation by record' of an important class of industrial heritage asset.

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) distributes money from the National Lottery to heritage. Since 1995 the HLF has given some £3 billion to 15,000 projects. As a small organization with a relatively large remit, applied research has been critical to the work of the HLF, helping it set priorities, make decisions and evaluate its programmes. Key research issues include: defining the needs of the heritage, the best means of evaluating projects and programmes, and capturing the economic and social benefits of heritage. Young people can be a difficult audience for heritage funders to reach, and it is shown how evaluation informed a dedicated new programme. The example of its support of parks shows how a need identified through research became a priority for the HLF, and has since been taken up by government. Finally, the HLF has developed a distinctive approach based on a very open concept of what heritage is and means to people. Research into public attitudes to heritage has been central to this. The DCMS cites 23 other agencies as working alongside the HLF (DCMS, 2003b, p. 6). These presumably include the national bodies who deal with the historic environment (such as English Heritage, Historic Scotland and Cadw in Wales), the natural heritage (such as English Nature or Scottish Natural Heritage) and the countryside (the Countryside Agency), and those involved with issues such as collections (Museums, Libraries and Archives, MLA) and new design (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, CABE). The Lottery will be reviewed in the lead up to the licence review in 2009 and inevitably questions will be asked about the future of funding. In another context, the Secretary of State has asked how it is possible to capture the value of culture. In common with organizations who deal with sports, art and culture, the HLF needs to capture the benefits of funding in a way that makes sense to both politicians and the public. Doing this depends upon robust research.

Valuation of the historic environment: The scope for using economic valuation evidence in the appraisal of heritage-related projects

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the history of heritage inventories in England and look at the requirements for a future vision of networked, digital heritage inventories to support heritage protection in England as outlined in the Heritage Information Access Strategy (HIAS). The strategy, led by Historic England, the UK Government-funded agency for heritage in England, is proposing a more formalized network where the prime sources of data relating to non-designated heritage assets will be the local authority historic environment records. Design/methodology/approach – This paper looks at the historic development of the inventories from paper-based publications to digital data sets and the proliferation of data. The Monument Inventory Data Standard Heritage will also be discussed in the context of providing a common framework. Findings – The present loose network presents several challenges for the multiple organizations maintaining similar data sets on disparate IT software, namely, the duplication of content, ownership of content and different approaches to recording practice and standards. There is a need for common data standards and controlled vocabularies in order to facilitate data exchange and interoperability across the network. Practical implications – The findings are based on the common experience of heritage inventory providers in England, but are relevant to any country where multiple inventories exist. It is anticipated that the implementation of the HIAS will provide a future-proofed environment for a shared national inventory. Originality/value – This paper presents the HIAS in its historic context. It is hoped that this may be of value to inventory programmes from outside the UK.

Historical environment requires a respectful act of conservation with a view to sustain cultural heritage. The increasing trend of continuous change in cities is associated with emergent requirements in physical, economic, and socio-cultural fields. There is an ongoing quest for solutions in the fields of architecture and urban planning aimed to accommodate the ever-changing conditions. Nevertheless, despite the projects at city and building scale, the same are uncontrolled or inadequate at the detail scale. Therefore, approaches adopted in the industrial product design level may fall outside the scope of the conservation project in historical environments. The use of urban furniture is required in the public squares in historical environments. However, these products may be in disharmony with their historical environment and have an appearance that harms the urban culture. In case negligent installation techniques are used for the equipment element, this may lead to destruction of the historical environment and hinder the sustainability of cultural values. The "urban equipment element" term was adopted for the general definition of the objects, products, elements, equipment, units, and modules investigated within the scope of the study. The present article aimed to investigate the criteria that could ensure that urban equipment elements were in harmony with the historical environment and help with conserving cultural heritage. The design and classification criteria of urban equipment elements were investigated within the framework of the integrity and harmony of the historical city. For the purposes of the field study, the criteria associated with the functional type, user type, assembly technique, duration of use, infrastructure use along with visual relationship (form-color-tissue-material) in interaction with historical environment, and experiential relationship with environment in the scope of the historical vicinity of Hagia Sophia and Sultan Ahmed Square were analyzed. It was concluded as a result of the that urban equipment elements in historical environments should be designed in an original appearance in harmony with cultural heritage in relation to each other; thus, cultural sharing and transfer might also benefit from experiential relationship with the historical environment; and furthermore, combining multiple functions in urban equipment elements would eliminate visual chaos in the historical environment, contributing to visual harmony.

The desk-based research and impact assessment were undertaken in accordance with the relevant guidance and in line with the SWARCH HIA methodology3. The site and surrounding assets were visited on 6th October 2025 by F. Balmond and 22nd October 2025 by B. Morris. Photographs of the site of the proposed turbine were taken to and from the heritage assets are included in this report. A geophysical survey undertaken prior to the erection of the extant turbine identified geophysical anomalies associated with Lidcott Mine, including an area of disturbed ground immediately to the west, and probable lode-back or prospection pits to the north. The archaeological potential of the site, excluding the remains of the 19th century mine, appears to be low. The existing track and cable run would be reused to minimise the impact of the proposed turbine. Whilst there are a number of designated heritage assets identified within this landscape with intervisibility to the proposed turbine, the nature of the landscape, and the effect of screening, means that the number of assets where an appreciable adverse effect on significance as a result of the proposed development are limited. Due to the number of operational or consented turbines in the local area, there will be a cumulative effect. Overall, the effect of repowering of this turbine on the historic environment is adjudged to be Negligible Adverse. Given the landuse history of the site, the results of the geophysical survey, and groundworks associated with the extant turbine it is unlikely that archaeological monitoring of the works here would return any meaningful results. No further works are recommended.

This paper explores the heritage value of euphoric experiences, where the meaning and significance of places are often established instantly, ‘in the moment’. By convention, heritage assets are assessed by specialists according to their historical, evidential, and aesthetic values, values that have been recognised for over a century. More recently, following the publication of the Burra Charter (1979), and Conservation Principles (2008), communal and social (including symbolic) values have also been identified. These relate to the meanings of a place for its ‘heritage communities’. They accrue over time but are often harder to apply because they are more subjective. However, communal and social significance can sometimes be instantaneous, bringing joy and creating memories that shape personal and group identity. Working with grassroots music venues and attending gigs, it is easy to see this happening: the euphoria of the mosh pit or rave generating not just life-shaping memories of the experience but also value judgements for the ‘third place’ in which it occurred. In this paper, we present the argument for euphoric value and assess the ways these moments of euphoria can be accounted for in heritage assessment.

The bibliographic review offers a broad overview on the reconstruction after World War II in France. The bibliography does not claim to be exhaustive, but rather aims to provide a source for further insights. The reconstruction has been the subject of countless articles, reports and inquiries during the war and in the following years. However, critical and historical studies on reconstructed cities remained rare until the early 1970s. It was only at the beginning of the 1980s that reconstruction emerged as a research topic. However, the preservation of historic urban environment remained a marginal theme and nowadays it continues to be scarcely investigated, while the architecture of reconstruction is evolving as a new heritage asset. In order to facilitate consultation, the bibliography is organized into six main sections: general and reference works; historic centers and monuments; reconstruction in the regional contexts; the reconstruction as heritage; international comparative studies; electronic resources, websites, multimedia databases.

Historic England has a long-established and enviable reputation for producing high-quality publications on current research in the historic environment in an informative and engaging format. This i...

Cultural heritage (CH) values are important for understanding the significance of heritage assets. For that reason, the presentation of CH should go beyond providing factual information. It should reflect relevant values that are held by the curators, the heritage experts and the communities of non-expert citizen stakeholders. Associating values with the information content in a CH communication product is a challenging task. Digital technologies require special attention to communicate values along with heritage information to achieve meaningful and impactful communication. In this paper, we focus on a socio-technological framework for the integration of values into the information content provided to visitors. We have designed, applied and evaluated an eight-stage process for the inclusion of CH values in the information content and their communication to museum visitors. It has been applied at the Hecht Museum, located at the University of Haifa, Israel, where museum artefacts are currently presented to the visitors with informational panels that have been designed without any attention to values. Two digital applications, built by applying the eight-stage process, were developed. One was designed to cover the information and heritage values already available within the museum descriptions. The other was developed by following the suggested process, which accounts for values that were collected through a review of the literature, interviews with experts and interactions with non-experts. The two applications were tested, iterated and evaluated to assess the impact of value inclusion. Results show that both visitors and experts appreciated the value-enhanced communication. The evaluation of user feedback has further substantiated the creation of content that is inclusive of CH values, for the communication of museum artefacts.

This article presents the author’s research that investigates the intersection between the motivations and interests of the urban exploration community and formal heritage significance, as more commonly prescribed by heritage professionals. The article considers how non-mainstream experiences can challenge accepted definitions of heritage, particularly those related to understanding, valuing and engagement; with important implications for audience engagement and diversification.

Today's cities face a variety of development, rehabilitation and preservation challenges. Historical built environment deserves particular attention in this regard. Urban regeneration projects are particularly complex here because of the dense urban fabric and the risk of damage to the heritage values. In order to understand how to overcome these challenges, we explore the concept of urban acupuncture in this research. The urban acupuncture focuses on small, precisely targeted, rapid and usually low-cost changes that positively affect social, ecological, and even economical and physical dimensions of the surrounding environment. The aim of this research was to identify the recent interventions in historic urban environment of Kaunas city (Lithuania) that can be seen as the analogues of urban acupuncture and to evaluate them using the designed set of criteria integrating the characteristics of urban acupuncture, the patterns of socially and ecologically responsible biophilic design and the requirements for preservation and development of historic built environment. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sace.23.2.21434

The Heritage Lottery Fund has, over the past 13 years, given £4billion to heritage projects of all kinds. As the Fund has matured a greater emphasis has been placed on the evaluation of the social and economic outcomes of this funding. In 2004 we reported on progress with evaluation of the programmes targeted at particular types of heritage (Clark, 2004). The greater challenge has been to evaluate the outcomes from the Fund's generic programmes, which can fund any type of heritage and which between them account for over two-thirds of total funding. This article reviews the Fund's experience over the last 3 years in developing and implementing an evaluation system using the Public (or Cultural) Value framework. It presents some initial results from the research so far completed and reviews how far the framework has been useful in suggesting research priorities and organizing findings.

Historical environments and cultural assets, which are important components of these environments, carry values that are transferred from generation to generation and provide a link between the past and the present. Today, globalization and urbanization, which pose a significant threat to this invaluable heritage, also threaten rural settlements, where place-specific values are relatively better preserved than in urban centers. The protection of the heritage values of historical environments as a whole and the importance of protection have also been revealed by international treaties. This article focuses on Yeşilburç Village in Niğde Province, one of the villages built by Greeks migrating to Greece and later inhabited by Muslims migrating from Greece, following the forced migration agreement signed between the Turkish and Greek governments in 1924. Yeşilburç historical settlement was declared an urban conservation area in 2019, and a conservation plan is under construction in line with the current legal regulations in Turkey. In this study, it is claimed that the conservation works are a driving force and opportunity for the sustainability of the settlement, and the importance of the documentation studies carried out within the scope of the planning studies is emphasized. The data presented in this study is based on fieldwork and archival research conducted during the conservation planning process and assesses the challenges encountered in the process, the existing and potential values of the site, and the threats and opportunities that may hinder conservation. The key and triggering role of conservation and its potential resource quality is indispensable in maintaining the original values of the Yeşilburç settlement, which has a rich historical past, and new research will strengthen this situation.