Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cooper, Janet (1942-....)
Titre(s) : The Victoria history of Herefordshire. [First], Eastnor [Texte imprimé] / Janet Cooper ; with contributions from David Whitehead and Sylvia Pinches
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : The Victoria history of Herefordshire
Publication : London (GB) : Victoria County History, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (95 p.) : ill. ; 26 cm
Collection : Victoria history of counties of England
Lien à la collection : The Victoria history of the counties of England
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. index
Eastnor lies at the southern end of the Malvern Hills and has always been an agricultural
parish. In the 19th and 20th centuries it was dominated by the Castle, built between
1812 and 1820, and by its owners, the Somers Cocks family, Barons and later Earls
Somers, and their descendants. The Somers Cocks owned most of the land in the parish
and employed many of its inhabitants, and this ownership saved the parish and its
many timber-framed houses from modern development. In earlier centuries the pattern
of land ownership was very different; at the time of Domesday Book the bishop of Hereford's
manor covered the whole parish. From the later Middle Ages the owners of small freeholds
extended their holdings, so that in the 16th and 17th centuries several gentry families
owned small estates in the parish. In the course of the 18th century these were bought
up by the Somers Cocks family. This book explores, using the extensive archival records,
how these changes in land ownership affected the inhabitants of the parish and the
way in which the land was farmed. Eastnor is the first parish history to be produced
by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire, and complements some
of the work on Ledbury undertaken for the Heritage Lottery-funded England's Past for
Everyone project between 2005 and 2009. In its expanded treatment of the parish history,
emphasising the economy and society of the parish as well as landownership and religious
life, Eastnor is modelled on the first individual VCH parish history to be published,
that of Mapledurwell, Hampshire, in 2012
Sujet(s) : Eastnor (GB) -- Histoire
Hereford and Worcester (GB ; comté) -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
942 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Angleterre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781905165964 (br.). - ISBN 190516596X (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb470680416
Notice n° :
FRBNF47068041
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Settlement and population (Domestic buildings ; Landownership ; Local government)
; Eastnor Castle ; Economic history (Agriculture ; Industry and crafts) ; Social
history (Social structure ; Contacts beyond Eastnor ; Inns, recreations and customs
; Education ; The poor) ; Religious history (Parochial organisation ; Pastoral care
and religious life ; The Church of St John the Baptist).
