Historic Environment
The remote and largely untouched nature of the Defence Training Estate has preserved many features of historical significance including veteran trees, burial cairns, Roman roads, bastles, farmsteads, chapels, lime-kilns, Napoleonic fortifications, First World War practice trenches and other military remains.
With thousands of historical sites - including 782 Scheduled Monuments and Listed Buildings – some of the finest examples of British Heritage available are entrusted to our care.
There is regular liaison between Landmarc and military users of the Estate to ensure that military training from individual digging requests to major exercises including aerial bombardments are undertaken without harm to these important assets. Scheduled Monuments (structures deemed of national importance and subject to legal protection) are regularly inspected to monitor the impact of both natural and man-made factors such as weathering, scrub encroachment, burrowing animals, agricultural practices and not least, military training. Where monuments are in danger of degradation, restoration works are carried out to ensure that these irreplaceable links to our past are preserved for future generations.