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Abstract
Historical enclosure era property-related maps can tell us a great deal about the life and times of communities in the past. This study offers a unique approach to studying the historical landscape by applying GIS techniques to the examination of an eighteenth-century English village. Using novel GIS applications relying on historical maps, the study explores various aspects of the village’s physical and social characteristics. In doing so, the study forges effective linkages between cultural and landscape variables to reveal aspects of the historical landscape in eighteenth-century Britain previously inaccessible to researchers. This, in turn, provides a much more comprehensive and sophisticated template for future use by historical geographers in a number of contexts.
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1 The main study on enclosure maps is Kain et al. and it includes a brief justification for their existence (Citation2004, 39–46).
2 Pearson and Collier (Citation1998, 167–168) do not focus on the ratio of rent to acreage.
3 This data is in vector format which is based on points, lines and polygons.
4 The modern waterways indicated channels which were possibly modified by humans.
5 Mingay (Citation1997, 72–73 and 106) discusses the role and obligations of surveyors. An article by Sharman (Citation1989) describes a typical enclosure process which likely occurred in Elton.
6 “lord of the manor”. (Jamison, Citation1974, 155).
7 The pounds, shillings and pence are represented on the map as L S D (see and ).
8 Anselin (Citation2005, 129–137) for univariate analysis and 155–164 for multivariate analysis.
9 Anselin (Citation2005, 106–116) for contiguity-based weights and 117–123 for distance-based weights.
10 The rent was the spatially weighted variable because its value would depend upon size. However, the model was run with the size as the spatially weighted variable. This test produced an I of 0.155 at a p of 0.001.
11 Some fields did not report any rent values so they were excluded from the analysis.
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Christopher Macdonald Hewitt
Christopher Macdonald Hewitt is a PhD graduate from the University of Western Ontario. His thesis examined the role of the environment in the development and outcome of the Battle of Hastings. He has also done work on urban transit with an article in the Journal of Public Transportation.