Relevance and Importance of Open Spaces

The importance of the school playing fields and the cemetery next to the Church are not to be underestimated since, along with the open fields to the northside of Church Lane, they are  responsible for giving this part of the Conservation Area, its rural feeling.

The Brandesburton Conservation Area is essentially a built-up environment, and the open area referred to above are not readily appreciated from Main Street because of the ncline on which the School and Church are built, which obscures them from view. Nevertheless the open ground to the south side of the School on which the War Memorial stands provides a welcome breathing space in an otherwise generally built up northern façade.

This only leaves to be mentioned the “heart” of the Conservation Area (and the village), and undoubtedly its most important open space – the village green. Though relativly small in size it provides a valuable setting for the Market Cross as well as to several buildings of character which surround it.

Beyond the green, the core of the village is almost totally devoid of grass verges – only along Cross Hill do they remain.