Ebook: Landscapes, Documents and Maps: Villages in Northern England and Beyond, AD 900-1250

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.;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.