Abstract

Ironstone, people and politics; land reclamation around Corby, Northarnptonshire, c. 1850-1980 Richard Moore-Colyer INlRODUCTION cmnd. 6378) of which Stamp was a distinguished member. The Report, wide ranging in its coverage, To many middle-class intellectuals writing in the tended towards a resume of the many concerns inter-war years, the face of England was being over the future of the countryside and of the deep­ progressively ravaged by the twin scourges of seated problem of the urban/ rural divide. In seeking unplanned development and the unwelcome to secure the future safety of the aesthetics of the attentions of urban advenae. The literature of the English landscape, the Report emphasised the time, much of it reflecting Stanley Baldwin's need for development to be consistent with the nostalgic outpourings, was cast in a mould of needs of agriculture, and to have due regard for the resistance to change which mirrored an well-being of rural communities and countryside overwhelming desire to preserve the countryside amenities. Taken together, the Scott Committee for those who lived in it (Baldwin 1926). The idyll Report and the Land Utilisation Survey were of the English landscape was, of course, an illusion pivotal in determining the outline and course of