An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650-1950

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Figure 1 The principal landscape regions of England 5

Figure 2 Early-modern farming regions 8

Figure 3 The medieval deer park at Hursley, Hampshire, as shown on

an early sixteenth-century map 14

Figure 4 A wood-pasture common in Gressenhall, Norfolk 21

Figure 5 Wayland Wood, Norfolk 22

Figure 6 Typical heathland near Sutton, Suffolk 25

Figure 7 A water meadow at Charlton-all-Saints, Wiltshire,

in the 1930s 39

Figure 8 Reconstructions of the layout of open fields in

Northamptonshire before enclosure 43

Figure 9 Typical Midland landscape in the early eighteenth century 45

Figure 10 A typical laid hedge 47

Figure 11 A coppiced hedge 48

Figure 12 Beeston-next-Mileham, Norfolk, in 1761 51

Figure 13 Sopwell House, St Albans, Hertfordshire, on an undated

seventeenth-century map 64

Figure 14 A ‘pillow mound’ on a former Dartmoor rabbit warren 67

Figure 15 Graph showing the growth of the population of England

between 1550 and 1950 74

Figure 16 William Williams’ ‘Afternoon View of Coalbrookdale’

(Shropshire), 1777 80

Figure 17 The growth of the canal and rail networks in eighteenth- and

nineteenth-century England 84

Figure 18 Farming regions and land use in mid-nineteenth-century

England 94

Figure 19 The distribution of parliamentary enclosure in England 96

Figure 20 Typical nineteenth-century hawthorn hedge 105

Figure 21 Modernizing the landscape of Weston Colville in 1825 107

Figure 22 Ridge and furrow in Northamptonshire 111