Land use factors in the bowland and the dales areas of the old west biding uplands

Abstract

This thesis examines techniques used in land inventories at different scales of data collection and application. In the light of the inventories reviewed an inventory was set up using sampling on a 1 km grid for the Bowland and Dales area of the old West Riding County uplands. Using the inventory's data bank its use was illustrated and some analyses were carried out into distributions and interactions of land-use factors. Using a sample from the inventory certain possible correlations between soil and recorded land use factors were investigated.