Future mapping to reconstruct the past - by Jason Peters, Posthumous Plans

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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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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
& WytonBaldwin’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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