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The landscape is largely dominated by farmland, which is classified in three categories:
- large cultivated areas on the plateaux and in the valleys with few individual features (either projecting or linear) apart from roads and paths. In addition, there are hardly any isolated trees, copses, rows of willows or poplars, or woods. Usually there is an almost unbroken view of large or very large areas under cultivation (sometimes meadows).
The main crops are cereals, corn, flax, beetroot and potato.
The plots are sometimes separated by very beautiful sunken lanes, bordered by grassy banks or planted with trees. These lanes are mainly to be found at the Eastern and Western ends of the Park. It should also be noted that the appearance of these lanes could be improved further, in particular by less frequent scything, later in the year;
- some areas are more like hedged farmland, with individual features (trees in clumps and rows, copses, high and low hedges). This land, with areas of varying dimensions and densities, is often occupied by pastures (hayfields in very rare cases) or a patchwork of meadows and crops, and is generally to be found around the villages;
- some larger streams, which are not steep-sided, are bordered by rows of trees (willows, poplars), little hedges with the occasional break, meadows (Ruisseau d'Angreau, part of the Petite Honnelle, the Ruisseau du Barbet and the Wampe).

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