Based on Dr Ryder's PhD at Exeter, the book discusses the relationship between field and settlement morphologies and patterns of landholding in three case-study areas: the Blackdown Hills, Hartland moors, and South Hams.
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This book discusses the 19th-century historic landscape of Devon though the creation, manipulation and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database to examine physical evidence of change and development through field and settlement patterns. Making use of tithe surveys, the relationship between field and settlement morphologies and patterns of landholding is discussed for three case-study areas in Devon, developing the idea of landscape pays and the identification of regional differences in the study of the historic landscape.The author is a landscape archaeologist specialising in interdisciplinary studies of social and physical landscapes of the last 500 years, and The Historic Landscape of Devon is based on her PhD research at the University of Exeter. Her current research interests focus on the relationship between landscapes and folkloric traditions; using folk belief to examine how societies functioned in past, and she has a number of other works in print and forthcoming on Devon topics. More detail.
Contents
Introduction
2. Discussing Sources and Methodologies for studying the Historic
3. ‘A Wild and Untamed Landscape’ – The Blackdown Hills
4. ‘Furthest from Railways’ – Hartland Moors
5. ‘A Desired Possession…’ – The South Hams
6. Addressing Devon’s Historic Landscape
7. Change and Continuity
ISBN: 9781905119387, PB, 2013, 256p, col illus, Windgather Press, an imprint of Oxbow Books: RRP £38 (currently - 26/3/2013 - special price £24 direct from publisher).
- RG