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An Atlas of Northamptonshire : The Medieval and Early-Modern Landscape
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Partida, Tracey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Northamptonshire (England)--Maps.
- Northamptonshire (England)--Historical geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (653 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2013.
- Summary:
- An Atlas of Northamptonshire presents an historical atlas of the greater part of Northamptonshire (the first quarter having been published as An Atlas of Rockingham Forest). It presents in map form the results of fieldwork and documentary research undertaken since the mid-1960s to map the landscape of the whole of Northamptonshire prior to enclosure by Parliamentary Act. This is the first time a whole county has been completely studied in this way, and the first time a whole county has had an accurate view of its medieval landscape with details of the medieval fields, woods, pastures and meado
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; The county; Administrative units; County; Township; Methodology; Medieval data sets; Early-modern data sets; Township boundaries; Water; Roads; Historic maps; Estate maps; Enclosure maps; Tithe maps; Chapter 2: Forests and Woodland; Land use; Forest and woodland; Forest administration; The physical structure of forests; Private woods; Forest management at the local level; Assarts; Piddington; Helmdon Stockings; Parks; Chapter 3: Open Fields; Pasture and arable; Meadow; Pasture
- Arable fieldsField system case studies; Helmdon; Denton; Crick; Ridge and furrow; Chapter 4: Enclosure; Enclosed fields; Ancient enclosure; Parliamentary Period Enclosure; Roads; Enclosure of the forests; Chapter 5: Rural Settlement; Appendix 1: Map sources for township boundaries; Appendix 2: Map sources for GIS data; Notes; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; Atlas Maps; Key Maps; Introduction to the Medieval Atlas; Medieval Atlas pages 1-86m; Introduction to the Early-Modern Atlas; Early-Modern Atlas pages 1-86em
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781782971016
- 1782971017
- 9781782970996
- 1782970991
- OCLC:
- 881415927
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