Black Country Historic Landscape Characterisation
Black Country Archaeology Service, 2009 (updated 2010)
The Black Country Historic Landscape Characterisation (BCHLC) was been carried out by Black Country Archaeology Service on behalf of the four West Midlands local authorities covering the area. It was been funded by English Heritage.
Although the national programme of Historic Landscape Characterisation had rural beginnings, the HLC in the Black Country records the most urbanised landscape of any equivalent project so far published, covering as it does the area of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
The Black Country HLC aims to be a tool in understanding the landscape as it exists today, by placing it firmly in a context of the historical development of its constituent parts. The purpose of producing this understanding is to assist the sensitive management of the built environment in the future.