The Making of the English LandscapeDeals with the historical evolution of the English landscape as we know it. It dispels the popular belief that the pattern of the land is a result of 18th-century enclosures and attributes it instead to a much longer evolution. |
Contents
The Landscape before the English Settlement | 17 |
Roman Britain | 33 |
The English Settlement | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
abbey ancient Anglo-Saxon arable bank boundary bridge building built canal Castallack castle Celtic chapel charter Chysauster colonization Cornwall cottages country houses created Dartmoor Devon ditch Domesday Book early east eastern England eighteenth century enclosed English landscape English Local History example Exeter farm farmsteads feet forest green hamlets heath hedges Hill industrial Iron Age Kent land lanes later Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire manor market-place marsh marshland medieval Midlands miles mills moorland moors Norfolk Northamptonshire Nottingham Old English open fields Ordnance Survey original Oxfordshire parish church park parliamentary enclosure pasture peasant places planned town Plate population Porthmeor probably railway rebuilt river Roman Roman Britain Romano-British Saxon scape scene settlement sheep shire side sixteenth century Stamford stone streets thirteenth century thousand trees tunnel twelfth upland W. G. HOSKINS Warwickshire waste West Midlands Wiltshire wood woodland Yorkshire
References to this book
The Roots of Modern Environmentalism David Pepper,John W. Perkins,Martyn J. Youngs No preview available - 1984 |