There is much to be learned about the history of a building, a community, a neighbourhood, from looking at its landscape with a discerning eye. This book arose out of a Research Day held in 2021 to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the foundation of Chester Society for Landscape History in 1986. It brings together the work of seven members of the Society and offers glimpses into the past based on what can still be seen today. The papers, which focus on Cheshire but reach beyond it to north and south, range in time from the tenth century to the twenty-first, and cover topics as diverse as early ecclesiastical structures, medieval and modern settlements, nineteenth-century transport systems and both private and public buildings. Collectively, they express the enlightenment and the enjoyment to be found in the study of landscape history.
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Looking at the Landscape
Glimpses into the History of Cheshire and Beyond
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Looking at the Landscape
Glimpses into the History of Cheshire and Beyond
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Half title page
- Other Chester Society for Landscape History titles from the same publisher
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Colour Plates
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Looking at the Landscape: An Introduction
- 1 - The Christian Landscape of Early Medieval Chester and Wirral - Thomas Pickles
- 2 - Contrasting Settlements Along the Dee Valley Frontier: Defence, Crossing, Refuge - Graeme J. White
- Colour Plates
- 3 - Cringlemire - Taming a Lakeland Landscape - Maggie Taylor
- 4 - Early Nineteenth-Century Growth in Three North Shropshire Towns and the Influence of the Ellesmere Canal - Robert Ginder
- 5 - 'Estimating the Effects of the Railway on Chester is Not Easy' - Chris Pilsbury
- 6 - Carnegie Libraries in Cheshire - Vanessa Greatorex
- 7 - The Effect of Planning Laws on Settlement Development in Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century South-West Cheshire - Polly Bird
- Index of Places
- Index of Subjects
- Chester Society for Landscape History
- Back cover
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