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LANDSCAPES 187 Warrington gives an overview with emphasis on historical documentation, complemented by Nigel Dibben’s section on the archaeology and descriptions of individual mines. As with many multi-authored projects, the reader sometimes needs to read between the lines to understand how it all fits together. I would have liked a more detailed appraisal of inter- relationships and influences from one aspect to another, an easy point to make, but a poten- tially mammoth task for the project team, especially on top of the equally mammoth task of bringing it all to publication, on which the editor John Prag is to be heartily congratulated. John Barnatt Peak District National Park Authority John.Barnatt@btinternet.com © 2016 John Barnatt http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2016.1251044 Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming. By Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith, 2014, Oxford University Press, 350 pages, 64 figures and plates (8 in colour), £65 hbk, ISBN This is an extremely welcome overview, using a wide variety of source materials to review changes in husbandry over 700 years. It divides into two halves. The first, by Banham – who has first-hand experience of farming – looks at the annual cycle of agricultural tasks, and at crops, stock (including poultry and bees), animal products, and