December 2019

24th December, 2019 Misc. Article from ‘Landscape History’ 5.

The photo. above shows the south-facing façade of Burton Agnes Elizabethan/Jacobean Hall. St. Martin’s church stands nearby as do the remains of an earlier medieval manor house contemporary with the events recorded by Briony (s.p.b.s). In concluding her article Briony makes various points; She used a ‘combination of documentary, landscape and standing buildings evidence in

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17th December, 2019 Misc. Article in ‘Landscape History’ 3.

Continuing immediately on the last blog, Alice had married into the Griffith family while Agnes the St. Quintin family. Surely both were the descendants of Norman knights and almost certainly in both the households of Alice and Agnes Norman French would normally be spoken, unlike in the households of the surrounding peasantry. The picture above

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12th December, 2019 Misc. Article in ‘Landscape History’

Again apologies for break in service – changing to Windows 10 plus bad bought of sickness followed by chest infection. Following the last blog about Hessle Local History Society another article of interest was printed in the latest edition of Landscape History (the twice yearly journal of the Society for Landscape Studies) – interesting because

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