In using documents to research landscape history and ecology, there are two related golden rules to observe:
In any conflict of evidence between what the landscape itself has to say and ...
1 Pleasure grounds with walks, kitchen garden, paddock park with boundary planting. Probably contemporary with 1795 church. Recommended for inclusion on Local List.
2 The OS 1:10560 1886 Sht Warks 51NW ...
Pleasure grounds created in the Imperial period at Ettington Vicarage, to the north of the village. Features include walks, a kitchen garden, a paddock park and boundary planting.Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
I found some unusual field names in Bulkington describing the plants and animals found there. These are recorded in the Tithe Apportionment documents dating from 1844. It looks as though ...