The English rural landscape

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The English rural landscape

edited by Joan Thirsk

Oxford University Press, 2000

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Bibliography: p. 336-341

Includes index

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From pre-history to the present day our landscape has been transformed by dramatic human disturbance, triggered by the rise and fall of populations and their need to be fed, housed, and employed. These changes have built-up layers of evidence which today present historians with exciting new insights about land use and rural communities of the past. In this groundbreaking new study Joan Thirsk and her team of distinguished contributors, many of whom live in the very landscape they so intimately describe, invite us to explore the historical richness of the English landscape. Each chapter synthesizes the very latest thinking and provides fresh perspectives on its specific subject. The first ten chapters in turn describe the characteristic features of the main regional landscape types, including fenlands, downlands, woodlands, marshlands, and moorlands, showing that, however physically scattered they may be, they have been moulded by successive generations to produce many uniting similarities.

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  • List of Colour Plates, List of Maps, Notes to Contributors. Joan Thirsk: Introduction. 1: Joe Bettey: The Downlands. 2: The Wolds. Harold Fox: The Wolds: Before about 1500. Bernard Jennings: The Wolds: A Longer View. 3: Joan Thirsk, Christopher Dyer, and David Hey: Lowland Vales. 4: Christopher Dyer: Woodlands and Woodpasture in Western England. 5: Brian Short: Forests and Woodpasture in Lowland England. 6: Anne Reeves and Tom Williamson: Marshes. 7: Christopher Taylor: Fenlands. 8: David Hey: Moorlands. 9: Alan Everitt: Common Land. 10: Charles Phythian-Adams: Frontier Valleys. CAMEOS OF LANDSCAPE. 11: Leslie W. Hepple and Alison M. Doggett: Stonor: A Chilterns Landscape. 12: Kate Tiller: Hook Norton, Oxfordshire: An Open Village. 13: Margaret Spufford: Eccleshall, Staffordshire: A Bishop's Estate of Dairymen, Dairy Wives, and the Poor. 14: Barry Harrison: Staintondale, North Yorkshire: A Moorland Estate of the Knights Hospitaller. 15: Pamela Dearlove: Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire: An Estate of the Land Settlement Association. Further Reading
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

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