Ebook (PDF) published 2013.
Using the data presented in their companion volume, 'An Atlas of Rural Settlement in England' (2000), the authors offer preliminary explorations of some of the patterns revealed by comparing their new maps with the distribution of other types of landscape elements, archaeological sites and building styles. These two studies represent the culmination of a decade of research for English Heritage's Monuments Protection programme. The 'Atlas' defines the varied regional character of England's rural settlement and the former distribution of cleared land, wooded land and open pastures, a quilt with origins dating from one or two thousand years ago or more. This volume explores some of the complex interactions and negotiations between the physical and cultural factors that underlie both national patterns and local and regional contrasts.
Author(s): Brian K. Roberts, Stuart Wrathmell
Publisher: English Heritage
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: X+204
City: Swindon
Figures vi
Tables vii
Acknowledgements viii
Authors' preface viii
1. Rural settlement in space and time 1
2. Land and people 33
3. Farming systems and landscape characteristics 59
4. The characteristics of place: cases and studies 83
5. The Central Province: a reappraisal 119
6. Landscapes of old enclosure: the outer provinces 147
7. A synoptic view 173
Bibliography 193
Index 199
