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 ...
In the 17th Century the Puritans swept away flowery instruments like organs. This was ‘enforced’ by the Long Parliament in an act of 16441 called ‘Further Ordinance for the demolition of ...
1 LNWR Kenilworth-Berskwell branch marked on 1886 map.
The site of the Kenilworth to Berkswell branch of the LNWR railway, in use during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
Berkswell has a row of almshouses centrally located on the village green; they were built to replace parish poor houses.
The original charity
In 1589 parishioners complained that the Lord of the ...
