A lengthy and extraordinarily thorough history of the large park and garden developed in the C18th on the slopes of the Clent Hills during an English gentry’s enthusiasm for landscape modification, creating vistas and scenery conducive to retreat and poetic inspiration.

A survey of the geology and post-glacal hydrology of the Berkshire Downs landscape by someone with intimate knowkdege of the countryside in and around the area.

A study of the reclamation of fenlands in the Wapentake of Elloe following the construction of dykes and drainage during the expansion of Viking and early medieval settlements with comparative analysis of Domesday Survey records.  Includes a fold-out map of Elloe.  Paperback.

An illustrated chronology of the changing agrarian and industrial landscape and the evolution of towns and villages in the county of Essex.  42 illustrations including archive maps and documents.  Paperback.  28 pages.  Good condition.  Cat No 4517 

Inscribed as Ancient Woodland by English Nature, this booklet covers the history of Penn Wood through the ages from a Norman hunting chase, through its medieval charter boundaries, to enclosures in 1855 and records the successful campaign to purchase and preserve the wood in the face of a threat

A directory of present-day place names in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut that derive from indigenous native names with information on their original meaning including such examples as Chappaquiddick,  Merrimack, and Nantucket.  Paperback.

A detailed historical survey of the county presented chronologically from the prehistoric periods - Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age - through the Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval centuries with additional information on landscape changes, farming and enclosures.

The study of painting and drawing on rock surfaces made by peoples from time immemorial up to the present, is a field that is growing in importance in such disciplines as archaeology, anthropology, and art history and this book presents sixteen essays by leading authorities in aesthetics and rock

A history of bridge construction along the River Usk and its tributaries as the Welsh hinterland opened up during road construction in the C18th and C19th.  Many bridges past and present are described with examples illustrated in b&w photographs.  Paperback.  70 pages.

In addition to chapters on the geology, flora and fauna of the district, this volume also includes sections on hedgerows and woodlands with references to the relict remnants of the ancient Forest of Arden, as well as a short chapter on the pre-Norman archaeology of  the area.