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Landscape and topography

Printed

View of Castle Gate, Nottingham (Photo: A Nicholson, 2004).
View of Castle Gate, Nottingham (Photo: A Nicholson, 2004).

Primary

  • Most 18th and 19th century local histories describe the landscape of the area with which they deal
  • Guide books to the midlands were produced from the middle of the 19th century, the most popular being published by Murray, Ward Lock and Baedeker. These give useful quite detailed descriptions of major landscape features.
  • Robert Lowe, General view of the agriculture of the county of Nottingham (1794)

Secondary

  • Ben Cowell, Patrician land; Plebian culture – culture, parks and county in two English counties, 1750-1850’ (PhD thesis) NU Library
  • Philip Kinsman ‘Literary landscapes of Nottinghamshire’ (1990) East Midlands Collection NU Library
  • Dudley Fowkes ‘Nottinghamshire parks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ TTS , 71
  • Riley, ‘Early landscapes from the air’ (looks at crop marks in North Notts and South Yorks). NLSL
  • Adrian Henstock ‘Urban landscapes’ in Centenary History ed. JV Beckett
  • Michael Reed, ‘Discovering past Landscapes’ (more general book)
  • See also TTS Centenary Index ‘Landscapes’
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