The making of the English landscape / W.G. Hoskins

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1977. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. Notes; Originally published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-312) and index. Contents; The landscape before the English settlement. The pre-Roman landscape ; Western farmsteads and fields ; Roman Britain -- The English settlement. Villages and their fields ; Hamlets ; The shape of villages ; Some Anglo-Saxon estate boundaries ; The Scandinavian settlement -- The colonization of medieval England. The landscape of 1086 ; The clearing of the woodlands -- Marsh, fen and moor ; Buildings in the landscape -- The black death and after. The abandonment of villages ; New colonization ; New buildings -- Tudor in Georgian England. The landscape in 1500 ; The enclosure of the midland fields ; The flowering of rural England ; Country houses and parks -- Parliamentary enclosure and the landscape. The extent of the enclosure ; The date of parliamentary enclosure ; The new landscape ; The fields ; Hedgerows and trees ; Roads ; Farmhouses -- The Industrial Revolution and the landscape. The early industrial landscape ; Water-power and the early mills ; Steam-power and slums -- Roads, canals and railways. Roads ; Canals ; Railways -- The landscape of towns. The planned town ; The open-field town ; The market town -- The landscape today. Subjects; Historical geography. Geography, Historical Great Britain. Human ecology England History. Landscapes Great Britain History.