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Dartmoor's alluring uplands : transhumance and pastoral management in the Middle Ages / Harold Fox ; edited and introduced by Matthew Tompkins and Christopher Dyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, H. S. A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transhumance--England--Dartmoor--History--To 1500.
- Transhumance.
- Livestock systems--England--Dartmoor--History--To 1500.
- Livestock systems.
- History.
- Dartmoor (England)--Economic conditions--To 1500.
- Dartmoor (England).
- Dartmoor (England)--Social conditions--To 1500.
- England--Dartmoor.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 291 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- A striking and famous feature of the English landscape, Dartmoor (in the southwest of the country) is a beautiful place, with a sense of wildness and mystery. But in the Middle Ages intensive practical use was made of its resources: its extensive moorlands provided summer pasture for thousands of cattle from the Devon lowlands, which flowed in a seasonal tide, up in the spring and down in the autumn. This book describes, for the first time, the social organization and farming practices associated with that annual transfer of livestock. It presents evidence for a previously unsuspected Anglo-Saxon period of transhumance, by which the cattle's lowland owners moved with their animals and lived temporarily on the moor every summer.
- Contents:
- 1 Definitions and limitations 7
- Defining Dartmoor's resources 7
- Dartmoor and its parts 12
- Transhumance and its types 27
- Limitations of this book 43
- 2 The red tides: impersonal transhumance and the central moor 46
- The central moor: ownership and commoners 47
- Distances travelled and middlemen 55
- Pastoral management: the herdsman's year 61
- Livestock: numbers and types 69
- 3 The red tides: impersonal transhumance and the outer moors 81
- Ownership and commoners 81
- Pastoral management: drifts, structures, strays 88
- Perambulation and dispute resolution 94
- Order and disorder: outer moors and the central moor 99
- 4 Personal transhumance: distant detachments 108
- Cockington and Dewdon 108
- Ipplepen, Abbotskerswell and their links in
- Detached parts of the hundreds of Exminster, Wonford and Kerswell 114
- Kenton with Heatree 117
- Paignton and its parts 120
- Lifton and Sourton 123
- Northlew, Venn and Lettaford 125
- Tavistock and Cudlipp 126
- Bickleigh and Sheepstor 128
- The significance of the detachments 129
- 5 Personal transhumance: archaeology, topography, place-names and history 139
- Archaeology and topography 140
- Place-names and history: economy and society 148
- 6 Domesday Book and beyond: the transition from personal to impersonal transhumance 158
- The role of colonists 158
- The role of lords 166
- The role of the Crown 181
- 7 Dartmoor and beyond 191
- Droveways 191
- Pastoral husbandry 210
- The implications of transhumance for lowland farming 220.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-274) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780859898645
- 0859898644
- 0859898652
- 9780859898652
- OCLC:
- 724662745
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