Landscape Encyclopaedia

A Reference Guide to the Historic Landscape

Richard Muir

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Price:	£20.00 Paperback, £50.00 Hardback
Published:	30th March 2004
ISBN:	Pb 0-9545575-1-4 £19.99 Hb 0-9545575-0-6 £50.00
Details:	Pb, 298 pp; illus: 100 b/w

Synopsis

This book is the essential reference tool for anyone with a serious interest in Britain and Ireland’s historic landscapes.

The countrysides of the British Isles provide amateur and professional landscape researchers with an enormously rich resource. Excited by a discovery in the field, you turn to books, journals or the internet to find out more. You quickly find, however, that landscape history is a complex subject, an interdisciplinary mix of archaeology, geography and history with its own terminology and literature. What, for instance, is a clachan? What is a univallate hillfort? How did the open-field farming system work? And how can you find out more about these terms? This book provides the answers.

Reviews

'The book is arranged alphabetically and should suit those who like to know a bit more about the land through which their way lies. You might turn to 'packhorse bridge' and then find yourself in 'piffle' ('small portion of land or small farm') before straying into 'pargetting' ('decorative platerwork applied to the exterior of house in East Anglia') and ending up in 'parliamentary enclosure'. These names, whether eccentric or evocative, must not be allowed to wither.' The Guardian