The desk-based assessment follows the guidance as outlined in: Standard and Guidance for Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment (CIfA 2020) and Understanding Place: historic area assessments in a planning and development context (Historic England 2017). Note that the Historic England aerial photograph database at Swindon could not be consulted due to the long turnaround times. The historic visual impact assessment follows the guidance outlined in: Conservation Principles: policies and guidance for the sustainable management of the historic environment (English Heritage 2008), The Setting of Heritage Assets (Historic England 2017), and with reference to Visual Assessment of Wind Farms: Best practice (University of Newcastle 2002) and Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment 3rd edition (Landscape Institute 2013). The site is located towards the centre of an expanse of reclaimed marshland between Kewstoke, Sandbay, and Woodspring Priory. While now part of the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Kewstoke, it probably formed part of the Domesday Manor of Woodspring, or one of the two smaller manors added to Woodspring between 1066 and 1086. The pattern of landholding in this area was exceedingly complex, with many of the fields held as detached parcels belonging to farms elsewhere. This reflects the process by which the moor was reclaimed: common land was enclosed through agreement and allocated to the various stakeholders. It is likely this fieldscape was established during the medieval period, given the way the parish boundary between Worle and Kewstoke zig-zags through the fields and includes detached parcels. Relatively little archaeological fieldwork has been conducted in this area, and this reflects the bias of development pressure which disproportionately falls upon Weston-super-Mare and Worle. The geophysical (gradiometer) survey undertaken shows most of the fields covered by the palaeochannels of the former saltmarsh, with any archaeological signature drowned out by geological responses. The only exception is the 'island' occupied by Elmsley Nursery, where (tentatively) a sub-square enclosure with roundhouse occupies the highest point. Roman pottery and coins have been found c.50m to the south of the site, and Roman pottery was recovered during the walkover survey in Field 9. This evidence would suggest the Elmsley was a focus for (probably) Late Prehistoric and (definitely) Romano-British occupation and/or activity. Buried peat deposits ar...