Champion: The Making and Unmaking of the English Midland Landscape

by Tom Williamson, Tracey Partida, Robert Liddiard

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859898687
• ISBN13: 9780859898683
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 10.2"