“…Examples of such features are: listed buildings, as these have already undergone a value assessment, religious and historic buildings, landmarks, monuments and man-made elements of the landscape that are geographically and aesthetically in keeping with the natural environment of woods, fields, lakes, hills or parkland. In addition, it was found that the presence of litter and water sounds can decrease or increase ratings, respectively [10,11]. Equation (1) gives the final model [12], where TR = Tranquillity Rating, L Aeq the equivalent continuous sound pressure level of anthropogenic noise and NCF, the percentage of natural and contextual features in the scene (excluding the sky).…”