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The History of the Countryside (1986)

af Oliver Rackham

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Exploring the natural and man-made features of the land - fields, highways, hedgerows, fens, marshes, rivers, heaths, coasts, woods and wood pastures - he shows conclusively and unforgettably how they have developed over the centuries. In doing so, he covers a wealth of related subjects to provide a fascinating account of the sometimes subtle and sometimes radical ways in which people, fauna, flora, climate, soils and other physical conditions have played their part in the shaping of the countryside. 'One thing is certain: no one would be wise to write further on our natural history, or to make films about it, without thinking very hard about what is contained in these authoritative pages' Country Life 'A classic of scholarship and imagination...A monumental work, but it is written with humanity, dignity, concern and a great deal of humour' Times Educational Supplement… (mere)
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From its earliest origins to the present day, Oliver Rackham describes the endlessly changing character of Britain's countryside. Exploring the natural and man-made features of the land, he shows conclusively and unforgettably how they have developed over the centuries.

This history describes the ever-changing nature of Britain's countryside. Exploring both the natural and man-made features of the land - fields, highways, hedgerows, fens, marshes, rivers, heaths, coasts, woods and pastures - the book shows how they have developed over the centuries and, in doing so, covers a wealth of related subjects to demonstrate the sometimes subtle and sometime radical ways in which people, fauna, flora, climate, soils and other physical conditions have played their part in the shaping of the countryside.
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We are not entitled to make for ourselves any one typical picture of the English vill . . . in all probability we must keep at least two types before our minds. [ . . . ]
F. W. Maitland, 1897

Chapter 1. Regions.
He that should deeply consider the prodigious waste which these voracious Iron, and Glass-works have formerly made in but one County alone, the County of Sussex, for 120 miles in length and thirty in breadth (for so wide, and spacious was the antient Andradswald, of old one intire Wood, but of which there remains now little, or no sign) would be touch'd with no mean Indignation.
John Evelyn, 1664


The great Foundaries, or Iron-Works, which are in this County [Sussex], and where they are carry'd on at such prodigious Expence of Wood, that even in a Country almost all over-run with Timber, they begin to complain of the consuming it for those Furnaces, and leaving the next Age to want Timber for building their Navies: . . . I found that Complaint perfectly groundless, the Three Counties of Kent, Sussex, and Hampshire, . . . being one inexhausible Store-House of Timber never to be destroy'd, but by a general Conflagration, and able at this time to supply Timber to rebuild all the Royal Navies in Europe.
Daniel Defoe, 1724

Chapter 2. Historical methods and the use of evidence.
Neither war nor earthquake is so destructive of historic amenities as too much money.
An Austrian architect friend, on beholding an Aegean island city

We have 250 acres and make a perfectly good living; our neighbour has 300 acres; why does he want to grub out that wood?
An Essex farmer friend

Any fool can break eggs without making an omelette.
A proverb

Chapter 3. Conservation.
During a visit to Cornwall Mr Borrer stayed some time with the Vicar of Sancreed, an old friend of his, although no botanist. [ . . . ]
E. D. Marquand, 1890

Chapter 4. Animals and plants: extinctions and new arrivals.
The Wood. There is one wood which is called Heyle which contains fourscore acres. [ . . . ]
Hayley Wood, Cambridgeshire, in the Ely Coucher Book, 1251.

(Plus extracts from successive records relating to the wood, 1356, 1584, 1765 and 1816)

Chapter 5. Woodland.
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This book is about the ordinary countryside.

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Why is Herefordshire more like rural Essex than either of them is like Cambridgeshire?

Chapter 1. Regions.
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Exploring the natural and man-made features of the land - fields, highways, hedgerows, fens, marshes, rivers, heaths, coasts, woods and wood pastures - he shows conclusively and unforgettably how they have developed over the centuries. In doing so, he covers a wealth of related subjects to provide a fascinating account of the sometimes subtle and sometimes radical ways in which people, fauna, flora, climate, soils and other physical conditions have played their part in the shaping of the countryside. 'One thing is certain: no one would be wise to write further on our natural history, or to make films about it, without thinking very hard about what is contained in these authoritative pages' Country Life 'A classic of scholarship and imagination...A monumental work, but it is written with humanity, dignity, concern and a great deal of humour' Times Educational Supplement

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