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Hertfordshire: A landscape history by Anne Rowe and Tom Williamson

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More than three decades after the publication of Lionel Munby's seminal work The Hertfordshire Landscape, Anne Rowe and Tom Williamson have produced an authoritative new study, based on their own extensive fieldwork and documentary investigations, as well as on the wealth of new research carried out over recent decades by others both into Hertfordshire specifically, and into landscape history and archaeology more generally.

The authors examine in detail the historical processes that created the county's modern physical environment, discussing such things as the form and location of settlements; the character of fields, woods and commons; and the distinctive local forms of churches, vernacular houses, and great mansions, along with their associated parks and gardens. Both the rural landscape and that of Hertfordshire's towns and suburbs have their particular stories to tell, and the book reveals how the landscape is itself an important source of information about the past.

The great diversity of Hertfordshire's landscapes makes it a particularly rewarding county to study. Dividing the county into four broad regions the 'champion' countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east and the heavy, unwelcoming London Clay in the south the authors show how, in the course of the middle ages, natural characteristics influenced the development of land use and settlement to create a range of distinctive landscapes. Change was small-scale and piecemeal and the development of the medieval environment organic and gradual. The authors argue that even the layout of the county's medieval towns was usually the consequence of gradual growth, rather than of deliberate 'planning'. Variations in farming economies, in patterns of trade and communication, as well as in the extent of London's influence, all added to this variety in the course of the post-medieval centuries, and the authors track Hertfordshire's continuing evolution right through to the twenty-first century.

Lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs, this authoritative work will be invaluable reading for all those with an interest in the history, archaeology, and natural history of this fascinating county.

Anne Rowe is a landscape historian and the author of Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire (UH Press, 2009). She co-ordinates the research work of the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust.

Tom Williamson is Professor of Landscape History at the University of East Anglia and heads the Landscape Group within the School of History. He has published extensively on landscape archaeology, agricultural history and the history of landscape design.

ISBN 978-1-909291-00-3; June 2013; 352pp; paperback

“The University of Hertfordshire has become an important publisher of landscape studies. Their distinctive black and white jackets now raise expectations of ground-breaking work in this field, and - with their reasonable prices – they populate many university reading lists. Like many good publishers (and indeed good universities), they have sought to build links with communities in which they sit, through imprints aimed specifically at the local market, and UHP have published ‘‘Hertfordshire Publications’’ for many years. Some of these books justify a more than local audience and Rowe and Williamson’s offering is one of these.” David Stocker, International Journal of Regional and Local History

 

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