The History of the CountrysideFrom its earliest origins to the present day, Oliver Rackham describes the endlessly changing character of Britain's countryside. |
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Historical methods and the use of evidence | 6 |
Conservation | 25 |
Extinctions and new arrivals | 31 |
Copyright | |
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acres Ancient Countryside ancient woods Anglo-Saxon arable areas banks birch bracken Breckland bridges Britain Cambridge Cambridgeshire cent chalk charters common coppice Cornwall counties decline deer ditches Domesday Book Dorset Dutch Elm Disease earthworks East Anglian Elm Disease Enclosure Act England English Epping Forest Essex evidence fallow deer farming farmland fenland Fens fields Forest grassland grazing grow hazel heath heathland hedgerow trees hedges Highlands highways Ireland Iron Age land landscape later less lime Lizard meadow medieval Middle Ages miles moats modern moorland moors native natural Neolithic nineteenth century non-woodland trees Norfolk open-field Ordnance Survey parish boundaries park pasture peat place-names places Planned Countryside plantations plants Plate ploughed pollards pollen ponds poplar prehistoric probably rabbits Rackham rare records ridge-and-furrow rivers Roman road Scotland selions soils Somerset species Suffolk survive timber trees underwood usually vegetation villages Wales wild wildwood wood-pasture woodbank woodland