The English rural landscape
By: edited by Joan Thirsk.
Contributors: Thirsk, Joan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Land use, Rural -- England -- History; Landscape -- England -- History; England -- Historical geography; England -- Rural conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-341) and index.
Table of contents: title: Downlands / Joseph Bettey; title: Wolds. The wolds before c. 1500 / Harold Fox ; A longer view of the wolds / Bernard Jennings; title: Lowland vales / Christopher Dyer, David Hey, and Joan Thirsk; title: Woodlands and wood-pasture in western England / Christopher Dyer; title: Forests and wood-pasture in lowland England / Brian Short; title: Marshes / Anne Reeves and Tom Williamson; title: Fenlands / Christopher Taylor; title: Moorlands / David Hey; title: Common land / Alan Everitt; title: Frontier valleys / Charles Phythian-Adams; title: Stonor : a Chilterns landscape / Leslie W. Hepple and Alison M. Doggett; title: Hook Norton, Oxfordshire : an open village / Kate Tiller; title: Eccleshall, Staffordshire : a bishop's estate of dairymen, dairy wives, and the poor / Margaret Spufford; title: Staintondale, North Yorkshire : a moorland estate of the Knights Hospitaller / Barry Harrison; title: Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire : an estate of the Land Settlement Association / Pamela Dearlove.