Champion: The pattern of nucleated settlements and extensive open fields most commonly found within the landscape of the Midlands.
This book presents a radical reinterpretation of the origins of villages and open fields, and their development in the late medieval and post-medieval periods, in the Midland, 'champion' areas of England. Most landscape historians believe that villages were created in the middle or later Saxon periods through the 'nucleation' of a formerly dispersed pattern of settlement, that many villages were initially laid out as planned, regular settlements and that open fields probably came into existence at the same time. Re-examination and mapping of the data suggests 'nucleation' is a myth, 'village planning' an illusion and open fields were created, at least in their classic, 'regular' forms, only in the eleventh or twelfth centuries.
- ISBN13 9780859898683
- Publish Date 19 April 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint University of Exeter Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 252
- Language English