making english landscape making english landscape book english local historian illustrated plates photographs maps plans appeared editions english languages book landscape history england seminal text discipline local history brief history thousand years widely local environmental history courses defines theme book chapter arguing landscape historian needs use physical geography natural history historical knowledge interpret given scene fully remaining chapters describe english landscape formed anglo saxon period onwards starting looking detail landscape following tudor period georgian period parliamentary affected english industrial revolution development road canal railway transport networks finally growth towns norman times onwards little mention cities concluding chapter damage english countryside villainous requirements new age military airfields arterial roads describes new england invites reader past work widely admired described populist openly anti modernist writers praised book helping understand interpret landscape lived book overview introduction sets stall book exists describe manner landscapes country came assume shape appearance mentioning geology aspect subject clearing woodlands marsh creation fields roads towns country houses mines canals railways short altered natural landscape editions edition published reprinted book issued new edition revised edition new edition reissued published korean japanese editions books published paperback edition england edition united_states reprinted published edition england published editions england published paperback edition england society published edition england books published paperback edition england illustrations book illustrated plates maps plans uncredited use ordnance survey maps apparently work closely integrated text example text chapter accompanied pair showing hollow way formed digging double ditch pair raised earth banks ditch mark boundary estates supported photograph plate sunken lane devon explained boundary probably seventh century saxon estates royal photograph shows high bright sunshine figure woman middle distance contents book covers subject chapters landscape english settlement uses pages chapter introduction beginning praise guide district lakes quotes passage reader asked image tides visiting main sea shore writes feel oneself time places left argues landscape historian needs botanist physical naturalist historian understand scene sided pleasure looking wide view england simply sun fading unknown blue distances like view plain pleasant rural miniature like ridge recognizing details knowing came colour shape size seeing patterns parts fit scene rest chapter covers western celtic estimates roughly acres use grassland roman times compared million acres english settlement describes england settled anglo saxon people making country land villages estate boundaries period survive features sunken lanes banks scandinavian conquest england late 9th century added villages scandinavian elements village simply renamed saxon settlements english villages given shape period described detail eleventh century book identifies major types village green central square essex single street like consisting apparently scattered dwellings like near home chapter looks landscape book onwards section landscape country village exists today typical writes small church clearing woodlands argues 15th century england looked like great forest woods cleared pasture 12th 13th centuries henry_ii country royal forest begins section marsh words certain sheets inch ordnance survey maps sit read like book hour end growing pleasure imaginative excitement section wash rich detail marshes lincolnshire norfolk reclaimed time communities working buildings landscape briefly describes churches mills bridges castles built serve growing population describes abandonment villages plague killed half population states subsequent new building population eventually recovered marginal land suffolk populated abandoned villages counties deserted villages gloucestershire seen today ground plan air new buildings appeared especially churches towers like fine bridges cornwall period tudor starts chapter observing tudor times roughly sheep human england million sheep half million people million acres hardwood forest remembered village surrounded single enormous thousand acre field shared village farmers extensive wild places largely industrial smoke faster roads horse noises sky flowering rural england country houses parks magnificent date period georgian times parliamentary enclosure landscape chapter describes effects enclosure landscape fields trees roads begins quoting rural poet thou curse land existence parliamentary accounted million acres open fields counting enclosure common land wild waste roughly half england land enclosed end enclosure process revolution landscape began affecting parishes especially english enclosure acts covering million acres million acres enclosed thousand acts counties kent essex devon little affected having largely enclosed earlier directly forest miles new straight laid mark newly enclosed fields areas straight limestone walls instead straight new roads created time remained old villages new red brick victorian ones built middle enclosed land course industrial revolution landscape begins chapter remark england peaceful agricultural country beginning seventeenth century describes early industrial landscape water power early mills steam power names flying shuttle spinning comments opened steam engine factory country outside birmingham quotes poem excursion critical industrial smoke dirt rapid growth industrial towns like preston new towns like went single farm inhabitants mining landscapes cornwall including white china clay pits abandoned tin mines commenting point saw industrial sublime roads canals railways describes roads like way near home roman times like area notes way runs miles gloucestershire away village built villages away large roads safety home area records wide green track called built 10th century supplies anglo saxon kings estate goes describe building canal network roughly noting town created canals soon widespread transport network transformed english landscape railways page quotations son describing construction railway mentions campaigned railway bringing trains heart conservatives like lost line landscape towns chapter body book chapter considered epilogue covers towns seen english landscape grounds understanding towns brings pleasure describes turn planned towns open field town market town towns planned early norman times planning bury laid burst town planning came spa towns late 18th century new industrial towns like mid 19th century open field towns like nottingham leicester grew naturally open fields trapped pasture rights growing 19th century giving nottingham leicester problem managed solve growing fields stopped growing entirely calls museum piece beautiful 17th 18th century town finally market towns like grew large handsome market places number shapes landscape today concludes brief chapter image plate completed english landscape showing tall tree wide open field strip villages visible distance chapter damage caused parts english landscape mentioning nuclear bombers passes ends celebrating wealth detail yards study window reception contemporary reviewing book wrote case getting strong pair boots learn landscape history clearly taylor compared book man land published months earlier saying missed given differences approaches read noted talk london covered town landscapes appeared unaware urban geography review ended remarking views industrial revolution mounting horror completely weakened lust money money left noted happily moved quiet spot forget england scientists military men politicians look study window past wrote draws tender evocative picture gentle english landscape wrote reaches centuries modern writing guardian describes book robust account landscape narrative rural urban visible record gone know read told walking boots understand country lived plenty tried guardian described book absolute revolution notes revered book reading enabled read landscape historical familiar english countryside regional variation form historical evolving history look innovative lens provided landscape sudden archaeological dig hills woods fields rivers villages roads ceased simple features view instead history english display age latest book history written land local historian calls book brilliantly crafted observes famously england arterial pass diesel oil belonging mid twentieth century fact national car ownership doubled 1950s subject time come writing spectator said book eye opener people told extent landscape man god taught look assessment writing chapter english culture landscape edited book public value identifies key points established landscape great antiquity older think landscapes changed suddenly 18th century following field stressed read landscape research reveal cultural value told grand story landscape johnson compares account lord rings return landscape narrative populist listen result english post war culture openly anti modernist evidence johnson cites famous passage concluding chapter happened landscape english countryside airfields bare poor devastated lincolnshire suffolk long gentle lines dip slope sheep grey lent villainous requirements new age day day shape bomber laying trail like constable sky england pre electric fence high barbed wire england arterial pass diesel oil england bombing range silence scientists military men politicians let turn away past lost television bbc broadcast episode television programme horizon making english landscape produced featuring presenter programme inspired original book wrote page illustrated bbc book accompany programme later 1970s jones went produce series programmes additional areas country studied leading title man england accompany series
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