The North Downs

by Brandon, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781860773532
• ISBN10: 1860773532
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: History Pr Ltd

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Preface	xv
Introduction	1	(18)
The Natural and Man-Made Setting	19	(17)
Quarrying and Mining	36	(10)
Early Man	46	(12)
Anglo-Saxons	58	(10)
Living on the Land in the Early Middle Ages	68	(16)
The Later Middle Ages	84	(9)
Early Churches and Religious Houses	93	(10)
The Late Sixteenth to the Mid-Eighteenth Centuries	103	(16)
Industrial Evolution	119	(7)
Sir John Evelyn of Wotton	126	(8)
The Farmer and Landowner, 1750-1880	134	(15)
Nineteenth-Century Labourers	149	(6)
A Nobleman's Estate: Linton Place	155	(6)
After Eden	161	(5)
London's Playground	166	(12)
The Estate Management of the Brays of Shere	178	(8)
The Victorian Church, Rural Arts and Crafts, and Social Reform	186	(17)
The London Octopus and Rural Landscape Protection	203	(11)
The Literary Inspiration of Downs and Hills	214	(12)
The Landscape Artist	226	(9)
Nature, Man and Beast	235	(10)
The North Downs at War	245	(8)
The Present and Uncertain Future	253	(6)
References	259	(6)
Bibliography	265	(10)
Index	275