# The Countryside Stewardship Regulations 1998, Paragraph 1


In Parts I to III of Schedule 1—
“carr” means an area of marshy ground on which the vegetation is predominantly willow or alder;
“conservation headland” means an area around the outside of a cereal crop that receives no insecticides in the spring or summer and where the use of herbicides is restricted;
“fen” means an area of low-lying marshy ground;
“grassland” means land on which the vegetation consists primarily of grass species;
“heath” means an area of grass, shrubs and trees on acidic sandy soils;
“improved land” means land which has been drained, fertilised, reseeded or otherwise managed to increase its productive capacity;
“maiden fruit tree” means a fruit tree not more than 2 years old;
“management plan” means a plan for carrying out any activity (other than the making of a payment) provided for in a stewardship agreement;
“meadowland” means land used for the production of hay or silage;
“overwintered stubbles” means the remains of a cereal or linseed crop after harvesting, retained through the winter into the next year;
“pilot area” means any of the areas shown coloured yellow on the maps marked A and B contained in the document entitled “Countryside Stewardship Scheme—Arable Farmland Pilot Areas”, dated 21st May 1998, signed by the Parliamentary Secretary on behalf of the Minister and deposited at the offices of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3HX, together with any other land which—
(a) by reason of its close proximity is farmed together with any land situated in any such area, as a single unit of farmland;
(b) is the smaller part of that unit; and
(c) in the Minister’s opinion cannot reasonably be treated separately from any land so situated for the purpose of these Regulations;
“reedbeds” means an area of marshy ground on which the vegetation consists primarily of reeds;
“rough pasture” means permanent grassland on which the vegetation is predominantly natural because agricultural improvement is difficult due to terrain or other physical constraints;
“scrape” means a shallow excavation which may hold water seasonally;
“spring cereal crop” means a cereal crop sown in the spring;
“spring crop” means an arable crop sown in the spring;
“spring and summer fallow” means land that is cultivated in the spring and then left without further disturbance or cultivation during the spring or summer;
“standard fruit tree” means a fruit tree other than a maiden fruit tree, with a stem of between 1.6 metres and 2 metres, and no more than 5 years old;
“water meadow” means a meadow which is periodically inundated with water through a system of sluices and carriers; and
“wildlife seed mixtures” means the sowing of a mixture of seeds of plant species that will benefit wildlife.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1327/schedule/1/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/countryside-stewardship-regulations-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-1
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