This paper and that which follows are published together to illustrate how two scholars in very different fields can produce entirely different interpretations of an early twelfth-century poem. Using traditional historical evidence Christopher Taylor fits the poetic descriptions into the...

At first sight, this paper is an attempt to describe, analyse and date the archaeological remains of an exceptionally fine garden and park in Hertfordshire. The garden is, apparently, well documented, there being two large-scale detailed estates maps of it. But although the complex arrangements...

A disparate group of features in a Cambridgeshire fenland parish, including a moated site, a rectory, a village and a deer park have been examined in an attempt to lay the foundations of the landscape history of the area.

The remarkable House of Wonders, erected in the later seventeenth century by Henry Winstanley, the designer and builder of the first Eddystone Lighthouse, is examined, perhaps for the first time by a landscape historian. It is concluded that its usually accepted date is eighteen to nineteen...