How the Land Lies: The Origins of Regular Landscapes in the English Lowlands by

Publisher Oxbow Books. In practice much of the regularity so apparent at a large scale is significantly less convincing at a local level. While the landscape grain generally reflected the major topography of the area, this book suggests that the principal influence on the small detail of the field boundary was (and is) drainage, and in locations where the landform is planar the resulting landscape pattern is especially regular.

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