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Landscape history discoveries in the North West : proceedings of a conference sponsored by English heritage to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Chester Society for landscape history, September 2011 / edited by Sharon M. Varey and Graeme J. White ; with an introduction by Dai Morgan Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape archaeology--England, North West--Congresses.
- Landscape archaeology.
- Landscape archaeology--Wales--Congresses.
- England, North West--History--Congresses.
- England, North West.
- Wales--History--Congresses.
- Wales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chester, [England] : University of Chester Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From optical remote-sensing technology (lidar) to more traditional forms of landscape analysis and documentary research, this volume brings together the work of both amateur and professional historians and archaeologists, united in their enthusiasm for the landscape of north-west England and north-east Wales. This collection of research papers arose from the Chester Society for Landscape History's 25th anniversary conference and includes a wealth of illustrations. The publication offers new insights into a wide range of features indicative of the region's history between the twelfth and the tw
- Contents:
- Front cover
- Title pages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of colour plates
- Picture acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Notes on contributors
- Editors preface
- Introduction
- Stewart Ainsworth, Chapter 1: Stanlow Abbey: A twenty-first century assessment of a twelfth-century Cistercian monastery
- Anthony Annakin-Smith, Chapter 2: Curvilinear enclosures in the Cheshire landscape
- Mike Headon, Chapter 3: Settlements and their shapes in North-East Wales
- Graeme J. White, Chapter 4: The enclosure of West Cheshire: Keep ahead of 'Champion England'
- John Whittle, Chapter 5: A description and history of Walk Mill on the River Gowy in Foulk Stapleford
- Colour plates
- Sharon M. Varey, Chapter 6: Black and white houses to black and white cows: The farming economy of a Shropshire parish
- Alan G. Crosby, Chapter 7: New Roads for Old: Cheshire turnpikes in the landscape, 1700-1850
- Tom Swailes, Chapter 8: An East Cheshire township in transition: The early industrial landscape of Bollington
- Untitled
- Selected Field-Names of Cheshire and its Borders
- Rod Cox, The rise and fall of Lanbedr Hall, near Ruthin (Denbighshire)
- John Lowe: Dawpool Hall Estate, Thurstaston, Wirral: the home of Sir Thomas Henry Ismay, Shipping Magnate
- Julie E. Smalley, Lifelong learning
- Index of places
- Index of subjects
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 26, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781908258557
- 1908258551
- OCLC:
- 874812854
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