ABSTRACT
As the 1990s moved into the new millennium, tourism to heritage attractions continued to rise. Heritage sites play an outsized role for the UK hospitality sector. Heritage betrays a national lack of forward momentum. For Hall, furthermore, heritage is a self-validating process: having established a limited frame of values and events deemed worthy of authorization as national heritage, only similar values and events can be added to this structure of legacy. The English landscape, like the architecture of medieval cathedrals, marries form and function. It is not a sterile and rigid application of form, an abstract idea relentlessly pursued, dividing into mental conception and mindless brute labor materializing this vision. Landscape not only composes nation but is also the utmost memorial for patriots and patriotism; moreover, it is now acknowledged as owned by all citizens. The movement since the 1990s to use historic environment emphasizes feelings of communal belonging rooted in landscape.
