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Mapping Improvement: Reshaping Rural Landscapes in the Eighteenth Century

Mapping Improvement: Reshaping Rural Landscapes in the Eighteenth Century AbstractThis article explores the nature of landscape 'improvement' in the eighteenth century through a detailed examination of a selection of maps produced for the owners of the Merton estate in south-west Norfolk. The study of cartographic evidence is, of course, one of the foundations of landscape history, yet only limited attention has been paid to the full significance of the maps themselves and the manner in which they could influence the way landowners thought about their surroundings. A careful consideration of contemporary maps can, in particular, shed valuable light on the complex motives underlying rural landscape change in this period; a point which emphasises how the debate ought to be shifted away from economically deterministic arguments toward a wider consideration of the importance of social, ideological and aesthetic concerns. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Mapping Improvement: Reshaping Rural Landscapes in the Eighteenth Century

Gregory, Jon
Landscapes , Volume 6 (1): 21 – Apr 1, 2005
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2005 Maney
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2040-8153
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1466-2035
DOI
10.1179/lan.2005.6.1.62
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Abstract

AbstractThis article explores the nature of landscape 'improvement' in the eighteenth century through a detailed examination of a selection of maps produced for the owners of the Merton estate in south-west Norfolk. The study of cartographic evidence is, of course, one of the foundations of landscape history, yet only limited attention has been paid to the full significance of the maps themselves and the manner in which they could influence the way landowners thought about their surroundings. A careful consideration of contemporary maps can, in particular, shed valuable light on the complex motives underlying rural landscape change in this period; a point which emphasises how the debate ought to be shifted away from economically deterministic arguments toward a wider consideration of the importance of social, ideological and aesthetic concerns.

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Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Apr 1, 2005

References

  • ‘The Dukeries estates: improving land and landscape in the later eighteenth century’
  • ‘The changing ancient landscape: south-west England c. 1700-1900’
  • ‘The deviant dead in the Norfolk landscape’
  • The enclosure and reclamation of waste land in England and Wales in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries