Landforms
Why Rivers Make Such Persistent County Borders
Why rivers make persistent county borders: learn to read where a boundary follows a channel, where it departs, and…
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Features
Read the county through its land, routes, boundaries and names. Each feature follows one question closely and leaves room for what the evidence cannot settle.
Boundaries
Hedge, Wall or Fence: Reading a Field Edge
Reading a field edge shows how hedges, walls and fences organise a county landscape, while separating visible features…
Routes
The Old Road Beneath the New Route
Trace how an old road survives beneath a new route by comparing maps, names and ground clues, and separate visible…
Settlements
The Village-at-the-Crossroads Story Is Not the Whole Story
Why a village at a crossroads may owe its location to more than intersecting roads, and how to read its setting…
Place Names
A Place Name Walk for a Slow Autumn Afternoon
A place name walk helps you record map spellings, local forms and landscape clues on an autumn route, while keeping…