
Peasant Perceptions of Landscape with Stephen Mileson
The History of England
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What Are the Impacts in Warps Grove?
In the thirteenth century, a village in Oxfordshire had its own church. It's one of the smallest parishes in oxforshr - about three hundredn 35 ages or something. But it seems like the lords, or the lessees, the stoners, a big, big local family, enclose it. And that means they kind of chuck out the remaining agriculturists and they just turn it all to pasture for their sheep. So there's no more open field. The church is abandoned. We found it by geophysics, in that technique of covering underground structures. You can see it in the sort of the geophysical plan that we made
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