How Trees Gave Places Their Names
Gone Medieval
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How Do Place Names Tell Us About the Management of Trees?
We don't really have much evidence of how they were managing woodland, which trees they were considering important. So in order to then find out about this period particular, you've done it with quite a different approach and that is by looking at place names. Sotha: This is a real value of place named material. Where trees appear, we can see which species they considered to be important of note. And we can also tease out, perhaps, how they were using these trees. Yet be one example, there are very many, many more to explore.
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