Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Fox, Alan, 1938-

Title A lost frontier revealed : regional separation in the East Midlands / Alan W. Fox
Published Hatfield, Hertfordshire : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2009

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Studies in regional and local history ; v. 7
Studies in regional and local history (Hertfordshire, England) ; v. 7.
Contents The hypothesis -- A countryside divided? -- Mechanisms of segregation -- Kinship and dynastic moulds -- County and town polarities -- Overall judgement and findings
Summary A traveller through the length and breadth of England is soon aware of cultural differences, some of which are clearly visible in the landscape. The eminent English historian Charles Phythian-Adams has put forth that England, through much of the last millennium, could be divided into regional societies, which broadly coincided with groups of pre-1974 counties. These shire assemblages in turn lay largely within the major river drainage systems of the country. In this unusual study Alan Fox tests for, and establishes, the presence of an informal frontier between two of the proposed societies astride the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire border, which lies on the watershed between the Trent and Witham drainage basins. The evidence presented suggests a strong case for a cultural frontier zone, which is announced by a largely empty landscape astride the border between the contrasting settlement patterns of these neighbouring counties
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Regional disparities -- England -- East Midlands
TRAVEL -- Europe -- General.
HISTORY -- Historical Geography.
Manners and customs
Regional disparities
Rural conditions
SUBJECT East Midlands (England) -- History
Leicestershire (England) -- History, Local
Lincolnshire (England) -- History, Local
Leicestershire (England) -- Social life and customs
Leicestershire (England) -- Rural conditions
Lincolnshire (England) -- Social life and customs
Lincolnshire (England) -- Rural conditions
Subject England -- East Midlands
England -- Leicestershire
England -- Lincolnshire
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Local history
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781905313877
190531387X
9781907396366
1907396365