Landscapes, documents and maps : villages in northern England and beyond, AD 900-1250 / Brian K. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Brian K., 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villages--England, Northern--Planning--History.

Villages.

Land settlement patterns--England, Northern--History.

Land settlement patterns.

Great Britain--History--To 1485.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (596 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The last half century has seen many studies of the origin of the English village. As a cross-disciplinary enquiry this book integrates materials from geography, history, economic history, archaeology, place-name studies, anthropology and even church architecture. These provide varied foundations, but the underlying subject matter always engages with landscape studies. Beginning with a rigorous examination of evidence hidden within the surviving village and hamlet plans seen on eighteenth and nineteenth century maps, the first half of the book shows how these can be classified, mapped, analysed

Contents:

Dedication; Copyright Page; Title Page; Table of Contents; Table of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; CHAPTER ONE - The Nature of Rural Settlement; Questions of Terminology; Patterns and Forms-Some Definitions; Of Space and Place; Place and Shape-Village Plan Elements; National Contexts: Rural Settlement and Woodlands; Settlement and Woodland in Northern England; CHAPTER TWO - Of Patterns and Forms-Settlement in Northern England; The North Yorkshire Moors-a Case Study; The Components of Settlement Patterns; Distribution Maps: Comparing and Contrasting

Village Plan Elements and Processes of ChangeSettlement Sites; CHAPTER THREE - Settlement Plans-Regular Forms; Simple Row Plans; The Regulated Village; CHAPTER FOUR - Settlement Plans-Variations and Complexities; Cumbrian Villages and Hamlets; Yorkshire-Three Cases; Settlement Plans and Feudal Structures-Coxwoldshire, Yorkshire; Composite Row Plans and Towns; CHAPTER FIVE - Interpreting the Morphological Record; Dating Village Plans; Historical Cartography; Archaeological Evidence; Antecedents and Antecedent Forms; Documents-Kirk Merrington and Middlestone

Morphology and Plan Elements-Wheldrake, YorkshireGraphical Analysis; Analytical Cartography; Review of Questions; CHAPTER SIX - Estates and Small Shires-the Articulation of Local Settlement; The Organisation of Space; Early Land Grants in County Durham; Evidence and Questions; The Substance of the Small Shire; Rents and Renders Associated with Small Shires; The Nature of Aucklandshire; Aucklandshire Core Villages: Plan Morphology; CHAPTER SEVEN - Village Plantation-Problems and Questions; Devastation and Medieval Settlement; Of Drengs and Village Plans

Drengs, Split Drengages, Firmars and MolmenConclusions; CHAPTER EIGHT - Of Drengs and Plans; Settlement Sequences and Settlement Cycles; Settlement and Tenure: The Core Vills of Small Shires and Estates; The Peripheral Vills of the Bishopric Estates; Settlement Cycles in Durham; Conclusions in Durham; Beyond County Durham; Concluding Remarks; CHAPTER NINE - Planned Villages in Europe and England; An Overview of European Settlement; Antecedents and Roots; A 'Romanesque Society'?; The English Dimension; CHAPTER TEN - Planned Villages in England-a National Perspective; Of Royal Demesne

The Genesis of VillagesHamlet, Village and Burh; Vikings in the North of England; Appendices; APPENDIX II - The Structural Arrangement of Settlements in Boldon Book-Settlement Groupings.; APPENDIX III Historic County Boundaries; Bibliography; INDEXES; INDEX OF PERSONS; GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-324) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781782974291

1782974296

9781782974277

178297427X