Our project has shown that changes to our landscape now happen on a scale and at a speed which appears more dramatic than at any point in the past 1000 years Historic Characterisation' is a new way of using digital maps to record the different stories told by the places where we live Most people would agree that it is important that as we change our towns and countryside we should identify special places, such as our most ancient buildings and monuments, to be preserved and kept as evidence of the story of the past