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Section Headings in Warwickshire Landscapes: The Story So Far

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Chapter Thirteen, Nineteenth Century

Introduction, The Final Enclosures, Mechanisation

Estates and Parks

Industrial Revolution, Mining, Factories

Railways, Roads, Trams

Building, Growth of Towns, Country Houses Abandoned

Villages Rebuilt, Hospitals, Schools

Churches Modernised

End of Feudalism, Population Expansion, Joseph Arch

Landscape Conservation is Invented

Chapter Fourteen, 1900 to 1918

Introduction

Tractors, Cheap Food Imports, Expansion of Towns

Electricity, Telephones, Railway is King, Growth of the Car

The Housing Problem, More Country Houses

Airfields, Street Advertisements

Chapter Fifteen, Between the Wars, 1918 to 1939

Agriculture in Decline, More Mechanisation of Agriculture, Country Estates in Decline

Industrial Growth, Road Congestion, More Airfields, Railway Closures

Housing for Heroes, Suburbanisation, Ribbon Development, Green Belt

Urban Growth

Conservation, Planning Arrives

Chapter Sixteen, World War II

Food Shortages and Rationing, Planning for the Peace

Industry Adapts to Wartime, Military Establishments,

Chapter Seventeen, 1945 to 1949

Response to Food Shortages, Agriculture Support Payments, Technology, Fertilisers, Pesticides

Challenges to the Countryside, Agribusinesses, Fewer People Working the Land

The Rise of the Motor Car, New Towns, New Town and Country Planning Regime

Homes for Heroes, Prefabs, Growth of Industry

National Parks, AONBs, Nature Conservancy

Listed Buildings, Footpaths, Trees

Chapter Eighteen, The 1950s

Cold War Defences, More People Lost from the Land, Hedgerows Uprooted

Contaminated Land, Growth in Motor Cars, Decline in Public Transport

New Towns, Slum Clearance, Planning Laws Expand

Conservation, Green Belts,

Chapter Nineteen, The 1960s

Agricultural Chemicals Under Attack, Dutch Elm Disease, Common Land

New towns, High rise housing, Further Growth of Leamington

Daw Mill Colliery, Transport, The Rise of the Motor Car,
Beeching Railway Closures

Out of town shopping, Population, Green Belt, Cold War Constructions

Planning System, Conservation Areas

Chapter Twenty, The 1970s

European Influences, A Decade of Change,

Industrialised Agriculture, Agriculture and the Countryside, The EEC

Out of Town Shopping, The NEC, Motorways, The West Midlands Conurbation

The Sydenham Estate, Housing Policy, Local Government Reorganisation

National Turmoil, Countryside Policy as a Political Football, Green Belt

Cow Green Reservoir, Amberley Wild Brooks, Conservation Areas, the Polluter Pays

Miscellany

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