Managing the Historic Rural Landscape
The Issues in Heritage Management series is a joint venture between Routledge and English Heritage. It provides accessible, thought-provoking books on issues central to heritage management. Each book within the series is designed to provide a topical introduction to a key issue on heritage management for students in higher education and for heritage professionals.
Rapid changes are taking place in countryside management today, making their impact on the historic landscape. In an accessible format, this volume examines the questions and conflicts that arise in Managing the Historic Rural Landscape.
This volume:
Confronts the major issues facing heritage managers today, such as evaluating what is significant in the landscape, the relationship of landscape management to the preservation of historic building, and issues arising when the landscape needs to be used for another purpose such as the contentious issue of the British Army's training centre located on Salisbury Plain.
Presents these issues in a provocative case-study format so that those actively working in the management of the historic rural landscape can provide context and explain the issues which are most important to their work.
Provides case studies which are edited, introduced and commented upon to draw out most pressing and controversial issues for students.
Brings together a broad range of perspectives from archaeology, ecology and government agencies to provide a comprehensive overview of policy and practice in the management of the rural landscape.
This volume is essential reading for students and professionals concerned with countryside management, in particular those involved with cultural landscapes, students of planning, agriculture, archaeology, ecology and heritage management.
Jane Grenville is a lecturer in archaeology at the University of York.
ISSUES IN HERITAGE MANAGEMENT
Published by Routledge in association with English Heritage
Series editor: Peter Stone, University of Newcastle
Managing the Historic Rural Landscape
Edited by Jane Grenville
Managing Historic Sites & Buildings
Edited by Gill Chitty and David Baker
Managing the Historic Rural Landscape
edited by
Jane Grenville
First published 1999
by Routledge
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1999 Selection and editorial matter, Jane Grenville; individual chapters, the contributors
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Managing the historic rural landscape/edited by Jane Grenville.
p cm. (Issues in heritage management)
Based on papers presented at the seminar held at the Society of Antiquaries, London in April 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CONTENTS
Jane Grenville
1 Clive Potter
2 David Thackray
3 Graham Fairclough
4 Ian Dormor
5 Peter McCrone
6 Mike Griffiths
7 Ian Barnes
8 Tim Yarnell
9 Ken Smith
10 Robert J. Cooke
11 Helen Paterson and Peter Wade-Martins
12 Rachel C. Thomas and David Wells
13 Tim Allen
Tim Allen The Countryside Commission
Ian Barnes Defence Estate Organisation (Lands) (South West)
Robert J. Cooke English Nature
Ian Dormor University of York
Graham Fairclough English Heritage
Jane Grenville University of York
Mike Griffiths Mike Griffiths and Associates
Peter McCrone Lancashire County Council
Helen Paterson Field Archaeology Division, Norfolk Museums Service
Clive Potter Wye College, University of London
Ken Smith Peak District National Park
David Thackray National Trust
Rachel C. Thomas English Heritage
Peter Wade-Martins Field Archaeology Division, Norfolk Museums Service
David Wells English Heritage
Tim Yarnell The Forestry Commission
This book is the first volume in the new series Issues in Heritage Management. The series, a joint initiative between the English Heritage Education Service (EHES) and Routledge, is based on discussions at seminars, organised and facilitated by the EHES, where those involved in particular aspects of the heritage were able to meet and exchange views, ideas and approaches. It is important to note that the seminars were conceived as educational, rather than policy-forming, events. They were intended to provide a snap-shot of current policy and current practice and actively encouraged debate and positive criticism of the issue under discussion: they were not intended to put forward a particular English Heritage view or policy (although, as would be expected given the subject matter, English Heritage experts contributed to all of the seminars). As such we believe that the series will provide a useful and unique reference and introduction point for professionals, students and others interested in the heritage.
Most of the chapters in this volume are based on papers presented at the seminar The Management of the Rural Landscape although some additional contributions, identified at the seminar as being of major importance to the discussion, were especially commissioned. Inevitably, a single volume cannot hope to cover every aspect of the subject and some aspects of rural management are omitted from this volume, for reasons outlined below (see Grenville, this volume).
The seminar was held at the Society of Antiquaries, London in April 1997 and was organised by Jane Grenville and Ian Dormor. I should like to thank both Jane and Ian for all their hard work and diligence in planning and running the seminar. Without them it would not have taken place and you would not be holding this volume. I should also like to thank David Morgan Evans of the Society of Antiquaries, for hosting the seminar, Liz Hollinshead, the EHES Education Officer responsible for the series, for all her support, and Michelle Mulvihill, also of the EHES, who dealt with the administration of the seminar.
