Landscape grain

High Speed Rail (Crewe – Manchester) Environmental Statement, Glossary, abbreviations and references, published by the Department for Transport in 2022, defines landscape grain as: ‘The degree to which the pattern arising from the arrangement of components in a landscape (fields, woods, blocks of buildings etc) may be either large and infrequent (coarse grain) or small and frequent (fine grain).’

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