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Roads and Tracks
1963-1973
This file contains mounted magazine cuttings from 'John Peel Jottings' and 'Country Life', on bridges, cobble-laying, an ancient causeway in Wiltshire, an old tidal cart track at South Foreland (Kent)...
Drover's Road
Brunk Wille
1967
View of an old drover's road going over the moors, near Hinderwell (North Yorkshire).
Cattle Road at Ekeby (Sweden)
January 1965
The cattle road in the village of Ekeby (Uppsala Lan, Sweden), in snow. Wooden barns can be seen to the left of the image, and in the distance.
Dales Landscape
[1970s]
View of landscape at an unidentified location in the Yorkshire Dales(?). The view looks down a winding road with a dry stone wall running alongside, down a valley, with high ground in the background.
Dales Landscape
[1970s]
View of landscape at an unidentified location in the Yorkshire Dales(?) in stormy weather. The view looks down a winding road with a valley one one side, towards high ground in the distance.
Wooden Gate
Tilling, Philip M (1938-)
26 December 1968
Wooden 5-bar gate with combined fence and hedgerow, on the Winchcombe-Broadway Road (B4632) one mile north of Greet (Gloucestershire).
Dry Stone Wall and Gate
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
May 1965
Dry stone wall with wooden gate on the Burnsall Road at Bolton Abbey ( Wharfedale). The gate is flanked by 2 large upright stones, which are appended to each end of the wall.
The Growth of Wessex Map
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Copy of Map VIII from an unidentified publication, showing Anglo-Saxon settlement in the kingdom of Wessex. The peoples concerned include the Hwicce, the West Saxons, the Gewissae and the Jutes. The m...
The Fenland Settlement Area Map
[1960s-mid-1970s]
Copy of Map VII from an unidentified publication, showing Anglo-Saxon settlement in the Fenland Region of England. The peoples concerned include the Hwicce, the Mercians, the Middle Angles and the Eas...
The Origins of Rural Settlement in East Anglia
Wade-Martins, Peter
1973
This file contains a paper on English placenames, presented at the Medieval Settlement Seminar at the School of History, University of Leeds, 14 February 1973, which examines evidence for the origins ...
Sound Recordings, Cornwall
Wakelin, Martyn F; Tilling, Philip M (1938-)
July 1963
Mr. N. Cox, recorded in St Cleer; talks about animal (bullock) husbandry; winter feed; lambing time; moor cattle, allowed to roam free within certain boundaries, owned by commoners who pay for commone...
Village and Farm
1960-1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, contains items on village and farm life, and related topics. This includes W. E. Tate's paper, 'Parish Records and the English Village Community', extracted f...