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Peasants Making History
Peasants Making History
Living in an English Region 1200–1540
C H R I S TO P H E R DY E R
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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Notes on boundaries and measures
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
List of figures
Christopher Dyer
Oadby, November 2021
Notes on boundaries and measures
The region covers three counties, but their boundaries have changed
over time. I have tried to use as much as possible the boundaries
that existed between 1935 and 1974. Accordingly, the short-lived
county of Avon is not mentioned, enabling villages to the north of
Bristol to be described as in Gloucestershire. In the once
complicated area at the meeting point of Gloucestershire,
Warwickshire, and Worcestershire the boundaries after the reforms
of the 1930s are used, so that Alderminster, Quinton, Shipston-on-
Stour, and Welford-on-Avon are all here located in Warwickshire, and
Blockley in Gloucestershire. The Birmingham area is more entangled
in changes in local government, but the post-1974 West Midlands
can be ignored, and Solihull for example is here regarded as in
Warwickshire. Birmingham’s modern absorption of parts of
Worcestershire and Staffordshire are set aside, and King’s Norton,
Northfield, and Yardley are restored to Worcestershire. Halesowen,
once in Shropshire, is treated as part of Worcestershire, as is
Mathon, now in Herefordshire. Chaceley is now in Gloucestershire,
having previously been in Worcestershire.
Measures
Distances are given in miles as these are most readily understood in
the UK, but metric equivalents are indicated on maps. The metric
system (metres and centimetres) is in universal use by
archaeologists, so all references to dimensions of settlements,
buildings, artefacts, etc. are metric. Measures used in the past
(yards for cloth, acres for land), are retained, as also are sums of
money in £ s d and marks. Some measures appear in the glossary.
Abbreviations
The people of the three shires in the later Middle Ages must have
been well aware of the unifying river valleys and the religious centre
at Worcester. Together with their dialect of English these may have
given them a sense of attachment to the region. They would also
have recognized very clearly the varieties of countryside, with which
we are familiar from the writings of the early modern topographers
and county historians such as Leland, Camden, Habington, and
Dugdale: they used such terms as forest, woodland, wold,
champion, and Feldon (Figure 2.2).
Figure 2.2 Landscape divisions of the west midland region.
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