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Section Headings in Warwickshire Landscapes: The Story So Far

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Chapter Six, Saxons  and Vikings, 410 to 1066

Anglo-Saxon Occupation, Settlements

The Vikings, Invasion, Social Structure, Feudalism

Territories

Settlements, Languages

Farming

Industry, Roads,

Churches & Religion, Fortifications

Chapter Seven, The Normans, 1066 to 1300

Introduction

Settlements

Agriculture, Cultivation, Ridge and Furrow, Fishponds, Dovecotes, Climate

Woodland, Forests, Parks

Buildings

Deserted Villages

Hundreds

Industry & Commerce

Markets

Religion, Monastic Houses, Schools

Settlements, Feldon, Arden, Avon Valley

Transport

Chapter Eight, Fourteenth Century

Prosperity for Some, Food for Most, Poverty for Many to Come,
Early Enclosures, Feldon, More Assarting in Arden

Woodland, Grassland, Ponds

Moated Houses, Growth of Coventry, Black Death, The Class System Emerges, Market Towns.

Village Desertion, Climate Change, Windmills, Industrial Development, Roads.

Chapter Nine, Fifteenth Century

Enclosures beginning in Warwickshire, Growth of Coventry

Deserted Villages, Country Houses, Roads.

Chapter Ten, Sixteenth Century

Enclosure Continues, More Deserted Villages, Books on Husbandry, Deer Parks, Potatoes

Population Growth, Kett’s Rebellion, Schools, Growth of Industry

Roads, Country Houses, The First ‘Green Belt’, Kenilworth Castle,
Churches and Manor Houses, Monasteries

Chapter Eleven, Seventeenth Century

Enclosure Continues, Hedgerows, Rugby Cattle Market, Turnips and Clover Introduced.

Growth of Manufacture, The Brick Industry, Turnpikes, River Avon

Large Houses, Public Houses, Civil War.

Chapter Twelve, Eighteenth Century

The Enclosures Movement Gathers Pace

Hedgerows

Model Farms, Advances in Scientific Farming

More Country Houses

Industrial Revolution, Coal Mining, Windmills

Canals and Turnpikes

Population Growth, Birth of Conservation, Country House Gardens

Nucleation of Settlements, Fox Hunting

Deserted Villages, Village Growth

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