This historic environment deskbased assessment (DBA) follows the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists' (CIfA) Standards and Guidance for Historic Environment Desk Based Assessments (CIfA, 2014). The CIfA guidance defines a desk based assessment as a collation of existing written and graphic information to identify the likely character, extent, quality and worth of the known or potential archaeological resource of a given area or site. Desk-based assessments are primarily used in order to assess the likely impact of a proposed development on the archaeological resource and to enable appropriate mitigation strategies to be formulated in line with national and local historic environment planning policies. The Study Area consists of a 500m area from the route of the proposed pipeline scheme. Relevant assets from the wider area have also been considered within this DBA. The following sources were consulted in order to gather the baseline and establish the potential archaeological resource: " The North Yorkshire Historic Environment Record (HERs); " Local, regional, and national planning policies in relation to archaeology and built heritage; " Geological data held by the British Geological Survey (British Geological Survey, 2017); " Historic Ordnance Survey maps located at the North Yorkshire Record Offices; " Relevant published and unpublished archaeological sources; and " A site visit walkover to further assess the potential for archaeological remains to be present This Desk Based Assessment has identified a number of assets within the direct vicinity of the Scheme, including potential Roman assets at the northern end of the Scheme, as well as Roman, Medieval and Post Medieval assets/potential assets around Spital Hill and the A19. In the area surrounding the northern end of the Scheme there is an emerging later prehistoric landscape. With the general arable nature of land use in this area, it is likely that any extant features such as barrows will have been ploughed out. Due to the paucity of modern intrusive investigation in this area, it leaves cropmarks as the main evidence for features of prehistoric, Roman and early medieval land use within the Study area. As such it must be assumed a potential presence of Roman or later land use at the northern extent of the scheme, with a further possibility of prehistoric features in this area. The mapping has shown that several disused medieval/post medieval field boundaries will be crossed by the pipeline. One...