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Fox 210 $aHatfield $cUniversity of Hertfordshire Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in local and regional history ;$vv. 7 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-306-10037-2 311 $a1-902806-97-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Rochford 327 $a2.10 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 Coggles 327 $a2.26 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 Mowbray 327 $a2.39 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' 327 $a3.4 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 1801 327 $a4.2 Test Area: 'open' and 'close' parishes 330 $aSeeking 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. 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