future mapping to reconstruct the past - by jason peters, posthumous plans

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1963 – 2013 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY www.posthumousplans.co.uk

Reconstructing the ‘lost’ landscapes and

forests of Huntingdonshire

Multi-layered mapping with a multi-disciplinary approach

‘More people are both making and using maps

for more purposes than ever before.’

Editorial. The Cartographic Journal Nov.2012, Vol. 49. No. 4. p.298

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1963 – 2013 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

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HUNTINGDONSHIRE

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Drayton 1622

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Pratt’s Map of the

Great North Road

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Blome,

‘A Mapp of

Huntingdonshire’,

1673

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Blome,

‘A Mapp of

Huntingdonshire’,

1673

Wabridge Forest

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1301 AD (King Edward I) perambulation extracts of the boundaries

of the ‘hays’ of Weybridge, Harthay and Sapley translated and

published in Victoria County History :Huntingdonshire (VCH:H)

‘When Henry II afforested the whole County he excepted

Waybridge, Sapley, and Harthay forests, which had previously

been royal demesne.’

Cartul. Mon. de Rames.VCH:H Brampton

‘A small portion of land known as Le Heuth in King’s Ripton,

in the hay of Sapley in the Forest of Weybridge was granted to

John Pykard by John de Crokesle in 1301…

to be inclosed out of the forest and reduced to cultivation.’

Cal. Pat 1313-17 P.92. King’s Ripton

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Weybridge Forest 1673

Sapley Park

1673

Blome’s Mapp extract 1673

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Personal communication,

VCH:H draft editorial notes, William Page to Inskipp Ladds:

‘the whole subject (afforestation, my addition) is so difficult

that I think it would be wiser to avoid committing ourselves

[in VCH:H] to any particular theory.’

VCH:H Draft Ed. Notes, (Brampton folder), Norris Museum, St. Ives

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1ST Edition OS 6 inch to the mile Quarter Sheet of XVII NE

Huntingdonshire (1890’s)

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Cropped to remove drawing frame and extraneous information

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Four Quarter sheets spliced to create a

composite roman numeral plan: XVII

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All Quarter sheets

cropped and spliced

to create a county-wide

base plan.

(28 x 4 =96)

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A Posthumous

Plan of

Victorian

Huntingdonshire

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Jeffery’s The County of Huntingdon, 1776

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A Posthumous

Plan of the

Topography

of Victorian

Huntingdonshire

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National Records Office,

Kew.

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Duchy of Lancaster Forest Proceedings, Ancient.

The history of Huntingdonshire’s Haga

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Perambulations of the Royal hays/haga of

Huntingdonshire 1218/19 AD (Henry III)

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Perambulation of the Royal hay of Weybridge,

Huntingdonshire.

‘Where the beasts of the king reside peacefully’

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e h s t

these These

Original text sampled to create a font

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Medieval Latin text translated into Modern English

retaining the character of the original font

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East Anglians

Mid-

Anglians

Mercian

Saxons Fenlanders

2. Romano- British

Iceni

1. Celtic-

British

3. Jutes

4. Angles

5. Saxons

6. Danes

7. Norwegian Vikings

8. Norman Franks

Catuvellauni

Trinovantes

Cultural influences 500-1,100 AD

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The challenge of linguistics

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The challenge of Place-name analysis

• Datable

• Specialism of types, i.e. woodland specialism

• Evolution of settlement

• Organization of the landscape

• Exploitation of the landscape

Scope scape land + scape = landscape

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Horse Haws Whores

Hoarse Hers Hearse

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Horst

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Djen Dobre

DOBRA DJEN

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Polish partition of

Silesia, Germany

as directed by Stalin

after

WWII

DOBRADJEN

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Modern German

place-name of

Gutentag

Corrupted form of

Old German:

Gutter + thal

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OE Haugh

Haughton

Hoctune

Houghton

Hoo

Ho

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Haugh – hoc – hough= Houghton

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Houghton

& Wyton Baldwin’s Ho

The Hoo

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Metes and Divisions of

Harthay:

From Houghtonlynche in

between the fields

of Houghton and the covert

of the same wood

as far as to the wood of

Brampton by the boundary

between the wood of

Brampton and Harthay

as far as to the fields of

Sybthorp. And so in between

these fields of Harthay as far

as to Rockspol and so

descend the stream as far

as Vikingslund.

Metes and Division of

Weybridge:

First from Vikingslund

towards the south

follow the old fosse as it

extends to the place

that is called Quinz Quercus

(5 oaks) towards the north

excluding the grove of

Ellington. And from

Quinz Quercus descend to

the stream which

comes from Woolley. And so

descend by this

stream as far as to

Woodwardmede….

…. And so between the

meadow of Alconbury

as far as Le Overdrain, and

then as far as

Houghtonlynche…..

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Royal Haga of the Royal Forest of Harthay in 1218 AD

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Royal Haga of the Royal Forest of Weybridge in 1218

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Haga sites from the Old English verb (ge)hagen

to cherish and protect, to covert

PLACE-NAME ELEMENTS

+hay, +ay

i.e. Harthay = hart + hay

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Wildgehege (game covert) Jatzdorf (hunter’s village)

Forst (forest) Grun (green)

Extract Messtischblatt 3140

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Reconstructing the extent, type and exploitation of woodland

and Woodland pasture through place-name analysis,

field-pattern analysis and historic documents,

i.e. Silva pastilis as recorded in Domesday Book

Lēah = woodland-pasture i.e. place-name Sapley

Lēah and tūn, concurrent, mutually exclusive,

approximately 750 AD

LEAH DISTRIBUTION

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Silva pastilis (woodland-pasture) mapped as

recorded in Domesday Book: Huntingdonshire.

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Field Pattern Analysis: small irregular = woodland clearance for

field creation,

long and linear = field creation from an open landscape

Field patterns

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The use of the Adobe Photoshop Programme in mapping

•Digital scans

•Drawn ‘layers’ that can be exported/imported to other files

•Re-size and rotate tool for overlaying

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NEW LAYER (tracing sheets) Select a Colour, draw or paint,

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Hartford

Estate

Map 1778

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Field lines

And roads

coloured

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Abbots Ripton : woodland, field lines, streams, roads

Layers extrapolated and exported

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Caius and Cockerell Library

Gonville & Caius College,

Cambridge University

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Ely Coucher

Book

Huntingdonshire

Estate Records

of the Bishop

of Ely

1251-1301 AD

Woods and groves disafforested,

by location and owner

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Sapley Forest circuit 7 miles

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Sapley Forest circuit 7 miles

Alconbury

House

Bellamy’s Grove

Moated homestead

Tumuli/Mound

Sapley Lodge Ermine

Street

Kings Ripton

Lodge

Priestley

Wood

Moat

Black Stone

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Royal Haga of the Royal Forest of Sapley in 1218 AD

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DUGDALE TEXT

Kingston

King’s Delph

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Forest of King’s Delph

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Somersham Chase

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The Forest of County Huntingdon in

AD 1301 (Edward I)

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THANK YOU !

AND HAPPY 50THBIRTHDAY

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