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This book reflects ideas that have been slowly gestating for many years. My work in this region began in 2001–2 with a major Leverhulme Trust-funded project to examine palaeoenvironmental sequences that covered the Roman period through to the present day in South West Britain (Rippon, Fyfe, and Brown 2006). This interdisciplinary project involved myself and two physical geographers—Tony Brown and Ralph Fyfe—both of whom have a strong archaeological background and which opened my eyes to the opportunities for integrating palaeoenvironmental evidence with the study of the historic landscape. At around this time, the landscape research group at Exeter was bolstered by a growing community of postgraduates whose theses shared in common a quest to understand the history of our countryside, and in particular where the historic landscape of today originated (Gillard 2002; Cannell 2005; Ryder 2007; Lambourne 2008). Researching a paper, ‘Landscapes of Pre-Medieval Occupation’ that was to appear in Roger Kain’s England’s Landscape, volume 3: The South West (Rippon 2006b) allowed me to explore pre-history for the first time in many years. That research fell during the period of my involvement with the Whittlewood Project, an interdisciplinary investigation into the origins and development of medieval landscapes on the Buckinghamshire–Northamptonshire border. This was a countryside of classic villages and open fields which really brought home just how different these landscapes were to those in the South West, and indeed the south-east of England where I was born and brought up. The discussions between members of the team—Chris Dyer and Mark Page, both historians, Mark Gardiner and Richard Jones, both archaeologists, and myself—after a number of the project meetings proved a fruitful testing ground for some of the ideas that eventually gained maturity in this study.
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