A lost frontier revealed [[electronic resource] ] : regional separation in the East Midlands / / Alan W. Fox

• Autore: Fox Alan W
• Pubblicazione: Hatfield, : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 942.5; 942.53
• Soggetto topico: Regional disparities - England - East Midlands
• Soggetto geografico: East Midlands (England) Boundaries Case studies; Leicestershire (England) History; Lincolnshire (England) History; England History, Local Case studies
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Rochford ; 2.10 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 ; 2.26 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 ; 2.39 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 1801 ; 4.2 Test Area: 'open' and 'close' parishes
• Sommario/riassunto: Seeking 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-mod
• Titolo autorizzato: A lost frontier revealed
• ISBN: 1-905313-87-X; 1-902806-96-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789697403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in regional and local history (University of Nottingham. Dept. of Adult Education) ; ; no. 7.