Search Results for: A History Of The South Yorkshire Countryside

South Yorkshire has some of the most varied countryside in England, ranging from the Pennine moors and the wooded hills and valleys in the west to the estate vi

In medieval and early modern Britain, people would refer to their local district as their 'country', a term now largely forgotten but still used up until the Fi

Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal mining and th

Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue an

The threats from global cultural change and abandonment of traditional landscape management increased in the last half of the twentieth century and ten years in