The Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB Historic Landscape Characterisation forms part of a national programme sponsored by English Heritage and undertaken by the AONB partnership.

From the English Heritage Website:

'The Historic Landscape Characterisation programme is a powerful tool that provides a framework for broadening our understanding of the whole landscape and contributes to decisions affecting tomorrow's landscape.

The HLC programme is approaching two-thirds national completion. Its projects produce interactive GIS-based descriptions of the historic dimension - the 'time-depth' - that characterises our rural landscape.'

See the English Heritage Website for more info.