334 Pages
by
Routledge
First published in 1984, Discovering Past Landscapes explores mapping techniques as tools for studying landscape change. The book examines how to create maps from specific documentary sources—agricultural statistics, tithe files, probate inventories, and Anglo-Saxon estate boundary surveys. It also demonstrates how to compile maps from diverse sources of every kind, illustrating themes and... Read more
Introduction
Michael Reed
1. Mapping the agricultural returns: a neglected tool of historical geography
J.T. Coppock
2. The tithe files of mid-nineteenth century England and Wales
R.J.P. Kain
3. Industrial landscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Marilyn Palmer
4. The landscape of parliamentary enclosure
Michael Turner
5. Probate inventories and the reconstruction of agricultural landscapes
Mark Overton
6. The topography of the early modern town, c.1500–c. 1750
C.F. Slade
7. Medieval settlements: topography and documents
B.K. Roberts
8. Anglo-Saxon charter boundaries
Michael Reed
Biography
Michael Reed
