The Medieval FenlandOriginally published in 1940, this book, together with its companion volume The Draining of the Fens, constitutes an attempt to outline the changing conditions of a fascinating region. The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided. Detailed, yet highly readable, this book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Fenland history and historical geography in general. |
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Abbey abbot acres Additional Charters Aldreth Antiq apud banks bishop of Ely British Museum Camb Cambridge Cambridgeshire cattle causeway common Crowland debent & solent disputes ditches Domesday Draining Dugdale eadem villa Earith Ely Cathedral facere & reperare Fenland fisheries floods footnote fossatum vocatum H. C. Darby History Holbeach Huntingdonshire ibid Ingulph island Item presentant quod Johannis land latitudine octo pedum Leveryngton Liber Eliensis Lincolnshire Littleport Lynn manor marsh Marshland meadow Norfolk novo Ouse parish pasture Patent Rolls peat pedum & latitudine Peterborough presentant quod omnes Proc quod omnes terrarum Ramsey Cartulary rata tenure repair river Rolls Series Sawtry Seweram sewers silt solent facere Spalding St Guthlac Stuntney super tempore predicto tenementorum tenentes tenentes terrarum terrarum & tenementorum terras thirteenth century Thorney turves unam Crestam upland usque videlicet quilibet villages villata Walsoken West Walton Wisbech Wysebech