05637nam 2200709Ia 450 991078969740332120230721014256.01-905313-87-X1-902806-96-4(CKB)2670000000104950(EBL)716172(OCoLC)609852614(SSID)ssj0000523965(PQKBManifestationID)11333411(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523965(PQKBWorkID)10545517(PQKB)11251069(MiAaPQ)EBC716172(MiAaPQ)EBC474770(Au-PeEL)EBL716172(CaPaEBR)ebr10491576(CaONFJC)MIL541288(Au-PeEL)EBL474770(EXLCZ)99267000000010495020091110d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA lost frontier revealed[electronic resource] regional separation in the East Midlands /Alan W. FoxHatfield University of Hertfordshire Press20091 online resource (225 p.)Studies in local and regional history ;v. 7Description based upon print version of record.1-306-10037-2 1-902806-97-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; General Editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part 1: Introduction; Chapter 1: The hypothesis; 1.1 Part of the Midlands: proposed regions; Chapter 2: The Test Area; 2.1 The Test Area, Marriage Study Area and Focus Area; 2.2 Test Area: relief and drainage; 2.3 The River Eye at Bescaby; 2.4 The county boundary at Sewstern Lane; 2.6 The scarp slope of the Heath from Buckminster; 2.5 Test Area: the seven 'landscapes'; 2.8 Grantham from the east; 2.7 The scarp slope of the Waltham-on-the-Wolds outlier; 2.9 Stoke Rochford2.10 Great Ponton and the River Witham 2.12 Stroxton; 2.11 Skillington; 2.14 Parish church at Skillington; 2.13 Parish church at Waltham-on-the-Wolds; 2.16 Lincolnshire Limestone Heath near Wyville; 2.15 Heath vegetation at Sewstern Lane; 2.18 Saltby Heath Farm; 2.17 General heath landscape; 2.20 Old railway track near South Witham; 2.19 Old quarry in the Heath near Sproxton; 2.22 Boulder Clay Uplands near Burton Coggles; 2.21 Field lowered by twentieth-century ironstone mining near Sewstern; 2.24 South Kesteven Limestone Plateau; 2.23 Limestone buildings at Burton Coggles2.26 The Marlstone Bench from Lings Hill 2.25 Castle Bytham; 2.28 Ironstone buildings at Holwell; 2.27 Belvoir Castle; 2.30 Former mineral line near Holwell; 2.29 Former ironstone quarry near Holwell; 2.32 High Leicestershire from Burrough Hill; 2.31 The site of Hoby in the Wreake Valley; 2.34 Former gentlemen's club in Melton Mowbray; 2.33 Ridge and furrow near Kirby Bellars; 2.36 River Eye, east of Melton Mowbray; 2.35 Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray; 2.38 Melton Mowbray from Thorpe Arnold; 2.37 The Wreake Valley at Kirby Bellars; 2.40 St Mary's church, Melton Mowbray2.39 Parish church of Kirby Bellars 2.42 The site of Hose in the Vale of Belvoir; 2.41 Vale of Belvoir from Stathern Hill; Part 2: A countryside divided?; Chapter 3: Land and people of the proposed frontier; 3.1 Test Area: population aged 16 and over in 1676; 3.2 Test Area: estimated density of population in 1676; 3.1 Population densities from hearth tax, 1676 Compton census and bishop's visitation c1705; 3.2 Focus Area parishes: population or households per 100 acres in rank order; 3.3 Population density: mean rank order of the parishes in the seven 'landscapes'3.4 Percentage changes in population/households from 1563 to the eighteenth century 3.3 Test Area: density of population in 1811; 3.4 Test Area: population percentage increase 1676 to 1811; 3.5 Test Area: open-field and enclosed parishes in 1676; 3.5 Population density: mean rank order of parishes which were open-field or enclosed in 1676; Chapter 4: Economic characteristics and contrasts; 4.1 Poor law relief 1803 and hearth tax exemptions 1660's/70's; 4.2 Percentages of parishes as arable land 1801; 4.1 Test Area: proportion of parishes as arable land in 18014.2 Test Area: 'open' and 'close' parishesSeeking to draw new conclusions about settlement distributions and population densities, patterns of wealth, underprivileged assistance, and land usage, this reference uses multiple criteria to subdivide England into regions. This unusual and probing study establishes the presence of an informal cultural frontier between two proposed societies, which would lie astride the Leicestershire/Lincolnshire border, in order to identify cultural differences and divides that are clearly visible in the English countryside. Taking the unique approach of stressing early-modStudies in regional and local history (University of Nottingham. Dept. of Adult Education) ;no. 7.Regional disparitiesEnglandEast MidlandsEast Midlands (England)BoundariesCase studiesLeicestershire (England)HistoryLincolnshire (England)HistoryEnglandHistory, LocalCase studiesRegional disparities942.5942.53Fox Alan W1539705MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789697403321A lost frontier revealed3790713UNINA