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Beauty and Profit: The Creation, Management and Harvesting of East Riding Estate Woodlands, 1750–1930

Beauty and Profit: The Creation, Management and Harvesting of East Riding Estate Woodlands,... AbstractThis paper discusses the planting of new woodland as part of estate improvement in the eighteenth century, and how it was managed and harvested in the nineteenth century. It is based on archive material from six estates in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It describes the remnants of more ancient woodland in the area, examines the surviving, traditionally managed woodland and the relatively treeless state of the Wolds in the eighteenth century, and establishes the context within which landowners planted woodland. The ideal of Improvement encompassed – among a wider range of ideals – a scientific approach both to farming and the growing of trees, and the landscaping of the centre of estates to form ornamental parks in the natural style of ‘Capability’ Brown. This was accomplished through the enclosure of most of the land in the six estates. Species of conifers were successfully introduced and found to be suitable for the new markets that opened up during the nineteenth century. New types of woodland also required different techniques of management, although the approach taken varied from estate to estate. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Beauty and Profit: The Creation, Management and Harvesting of East Riding Estate Woodlands, 1750–1930

Williams, Hazel
Landscapes , Volume 13 (2): 24 – Nov 1, 2012
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Taylor & Francis
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© Hazel Williams 2013
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2040-8153
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1466-2035
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10.1179/lan.2012.13.2.003
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AbstractThis paper discusses the planting of new woodland as part of estate improvement in the eighteenth century, and how it was managed and harvested in the nineteenth century. It is based on archive material from six estates in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It describes the remnants of more ancient woodland in the area, examines the surviving, traditionally managed woodland and the relatively treeless state of the Wolds in the eighteenth century, and establishes the context within which landowners planted woodland. The ideal of Improvement encompassed – among a wider range of ideals – a scientific approach both to farming and the growing of trees, and the landscaping of the centre of estates to form ornamental parks in the natural style of ‘Capability’ Brown. This was accomplished through the enclosure of most of the land in the six estates. Species of conifers were successfully introduced and found to be suitable for the new markets that opened up during the nineteenth century. New types of woodland also required different techniques of management, although the approach taken varied from estate to estate.

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Published: Nov 1, 2012

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