Deep Dale: Making Space for Nature in a North Yorkshire Forest

Deep Dale: making space for nature in a North Yorkshire forest

Edited by Brian Walker

Dalby Forest is one of the largest forest areas in Yorkshire. The current forest cover is almost all less than 100 years in age and is dominated by conifers from all the continents of the northern hemisphere. Despite its comparatively recent imposition on the landscape, it is a treasure house of some of Britain’s best natural assets. Deep Dale in the north-east corner of the forest is sometimes called the ‘Forest in Miniature’ because all the features found there are replicated in some way throughout Dalby Forest. Since ‘wilding’ began in the 1980s, the Forestry Commission and local field naturalists have worked together to ensure that the Deep Dale story is one of continuing success in making space for nature. The results of their studies are presented in this book, including detailed records of geology, plantlife, mosses and liverworts, bats, birds and invertebrates.

ISBN: 978-81-906604-73-8 Published 2020 Price: £8.00 (incl. P & P)

The PLACE Book of Woodland Walks In North and West Yorkshire

Margaret Atherden

Walking has never been more popular, and woodlands offer some of the best locations for country walks. This book presents 16 woodland walks in North and West Yorkshire, each with at least one specific theme, such as plants, archaeology or geology. The text includes sketch maps of all the walks and is illustrated throughout with colour photographs of plants, fungi, animals and features of interest.

Featured walks: Buck Wood, Forge Valley, Goathland, Grass Wood, Hackfall and Nutwith Common, Hebden Water, Huttons Ambo, Otley Chevin, Raincliffe Woods, Riccaldale, River Seven, Roseberry Topping, Skipton Castle, Skipwith Common, St Ives, Yearsley Woods.

ISBN: 978-1-906604-70-7. Published 2020. Price: £12.50 (incl. P & P)

The PLACE Book of Winter Walks in North Yorkshire

Margaret Atherden

This is the first book to focus specifically on winter walks in North Yorkshire. There are 13 routes, all suitable for walking between October and March. Each walk has at least one theme, e.g. archaeology or veteran trees, and the text includes detailed background information on points of interest along the way. There are sketch maps of all the routes and book is illustrated throughout by colour photographs. The walks: • Aldborough and Boroughbridge • Castle Howard • Cropton Forest • Duncombe Park • Hovingham and Stonegrave • Middleham and Coverdale • Ravenscar • Richmond • Ripon and Studley • River Foss • Scarborough • Sutton Bank and White Horse • Upper Nidderdale

ISBN: 978-1-906604-60-8 Published 2016 Price:£7.50 (incl. P & P)

Picture Guide to the Wild Flowers of North East Yorkshire

Nan Sykes

This easy-to-use guide to the wild flowers of North East Yorkshire was originally published in 2008 by the North York Moors National Park Authority. After being out of print for many years, it was reprinted with minor amendments in 2020 by PLACE. It includes high quality photographs by the author of over 700 wild plants, with concise descriptions showing how to identify them and where to find them. There is also background information on the area and its habitats. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the wild flowers of the area.

ISBN: 978-1-906604-68-4 Published 2020 Price: £11.55 (incl. P & P)

The Changing Nature of Conservation

Edited by Margaret Atherden and Veronica Wallace

From nature reserves to rewilding, from intensive farming to Extinction Rebellion, the last half-century has seen vast and far-reaching changes in the nature conservation movement in Britain. In this book, eight eminent conservationists give their personal views of the changes in their particular fields over the past fifty years and speculate on possible future trends. The papers are based on presentations given at a conference held in York.

• Sir John Lawton: Making Space for Nature: past, present and future • Rob Stoneman: The Wildlife Trusts - from preservation to dreams of a wilder future • Jeremy Purseglove: Nature conservation and flood management: a lifetime’s perspective • Tim Thom: Getting to grips with peat: the Yorkshire Peat Partnership ten years on • Laurence Rose: Bird conservation: from citizen science to nature citizenship • Phil Lyth: Farming with wildlife in a changing world • Richard Baker: Alien pest invaders: can anything be done to stop them? • Brian Walker: 100 years of growing pains 1919-2019: changing attitudes in the Forestry Commission

ISBN: 978-1-906604-69-1 Published 2020 Price: £10.00 (incl. P & P)

Challenges and Change in the Urban Environment

Edited by Ray Goulder

Globally c. 55% and in the UK nearly 85% of people live in towns and cities. Urban living has many advantages, e.g. job opportunities, public services, but also brings its challenges, e.g. pollution, poor housing. The papers in this book, delivered at a conference in Leeds, address the backstory and status quo of the urban scene. The four authors focus on different aspects of the urban environment: the impact of increased student populations, lessons to be learned from the Chinese experience, urban planning in the 20th century, and recent changes in the high street.

• Tony Champion: The rise (and fall?) of studentification • Ian G. Cook: Twenty-first century issues and challenges in Chinese urbanisation: similarities and differences to the UK • Michael F. Hopkinson: Places for people: the challenge of ekistics • David McEvoy: W(h)ither the British high street?

ISBN: 978-1-906604-71-4 Published 2020 Price: £9.00 (incl. P & P)

Roadside Wildflowers through the Seasons around Ryedale

Nan Sykes

This beautifully-illustrated booklet is a photographic record of 268 flowers to be found on road verges in the Ryedale area. All the wild flowers were photographed by the author in 2018. The species are arranged in seasonal order, starting with spring flowers e.g. cowslip and wild daffodil, through summer and autumn to winter flowers, e.g. snowdrops and winter heliotrope. The booklet has a laminated cover and is small enough to fit in a pocket and be carried in the field.

ISBN: 978-1-906603-67-7 Published 2019 Price: £5.00 (incl. P & P)

The Yorkshire Wolds Landscape: past, present and future

Edited by Veronica Wallace and John Brown

This book explores aspects of the Yorkshire Wolds landscape, both physical and historical. It is a celebration of the Yorkshire Wolds through time, from the earliest colonists to modern agriculture and recreation. The papers in it, delivered at a conference held in Warter, make a strong case for official recognition of the area, e.g. as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty or a UNESCO Geopark.

• Derek Gobbett and Richard Myerscough: Geology and Landscape • Peter Halkon: The Archaeology of the Yorkshire Wolds, an introduction • Jon Traill: Wildlife of the Yorkshire Wolds, a living landscape • Paul Moon: The Yorkshire Wolds, a landscape photographer’s view • Malcolm Hodgson: The Yorkshire Wolds Way, a national trail • John Gatenby and John Brown: Farming on the Wolds

ISBN: 978-1-906604-66-0 Published 2019. Price: £5.00 (incl. P & P)

Canals, Plants and People: a Yorkshire Perspective

Ray Goulder

This book represents many years of research by the author on the plants of Yorkshire’s canal network. As well as providing detailed records of the plants, the book considers the impacts of boating, the effects of loss of navigation, dereliction and restoration of canals. It also looks at maintenance and management of canals and the impact of leisure activities on the plantlife. Appendices list the plants recorded on individual stretches of canal.

ISBN: 978-1-906604-65-3 Published 2019 Price: £14.00 (incl. P & P)

Wild Flower Walks around Ryedale

Nan Sykes

Twelve walks are described in this booklet, each chosen for the interesting wild flowers which may be seen en route. There are directions and a sketch map for each walk and a list of particular flowers to look out for. The second half of the book has high-quality photographs of all the species featured in the book.

• Slingsby and Fryton • Shallowdale • Ashberry Hill • Rosedale • Appleton-le-Moors • Sinnington • Kirkdale • Lowna • Hole of Horcum • Hutton Common • Sleightholmedale • Levisham and Farwath

ISBN: 978-1-906604-64-6 Published 2018 Price: £5.50 (incl. P & P)

The Industrial Legacy and Landscapes of Sheffield and South Yorkshire

Edited by Ian D. Rotherham and Christine Handley

This volume is a collaboration between PLACE, the South Yorkshire Biodiversity Research Group and Sheffield Hallam University. It features four papers, delivered at a conference in Sheffield on industrial archaeology in South Yorkshire.

• Ian D. Rotherham: The Industrial Transformation of South Yorkshire Landscapes • Leona Skelton: Regulating a Pre-Modern, Industrial, Urban Landscape: street cleaning, waste disposal and insanitary nuisances in Sheffield, 1500-1700 • Melvyn Jones: The Wentworth-FitzWilliams of Wentworth Woodhouse: Industrial Entrepreneurs for Three Centuries • David Hey: Snuff and Grouse: the Wilsons of Sharrow

ISBN: 978-1-904098-67-6 Wildtrack Publishing 2017. Price: £7.50 (incl. P & P)

The Mosque in the City: Bradford and its Islamic Architecture

George Sheeran

This book is the first published account of the architecture of the mosque in Bradford and its impact on the cityscape. Both purpose-built mosques and the conversion of existing buildings to mosques are considered, together with an explanation of the key architectural and religious features. There is also a discussion of the cultural effects of Islam and a historical comparison with other faith groups that have settled in Bradford and the impact this has had on the urban environment. The book is illustrated with full-colour photographs and has a foreword by the Bishop of Bradford.

ISBN: 978-1-906604-55-4 Published 2015. Price: £8.00 (incl. P & P)

Famous Geologists of Yorkshire

Edited by Richard Myerscough and Veronica Wallace

The geological history of Yorkshire extends from c.500 to 60 million years ago, and the region has produced many renowned geologists. Some were academics and professional geologists; some were canal and mining engineers, and others were amateurs and antiquarians. This book, based on papers delivered at a conference in York, celebrates a few of the geologists and their contributions to geological knowledge.

• Richard Myerscough: The Reverend Edward Maude Cole (1833- 1911) • Robin A. Butlin: Geology and the Development of Academic Geography in Yorkshire in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century • Peter C. Robinson: William Smith in Scarborough • Peter C. Robinson: Martin Simpson of Whitby, the neglected geologist • Anthony H. Cooper: Yorkshire Geology as seen through the eyes of Notable British Geological Survey Geologists 1862-2000 • Chris Hill: From Forest Fires to Mangroves; How T. M. Harris Unravelled the Remarkable Flora of Yorkshire’s Own Jurassic Park

ISBN: 978-1-906604-58-5 Published 2016 Price: £5.00 (incl. P & P)

Walking in the footsteps of William Smith

Peter C. Robinson

William Smith (1769-1839) is known as the ‘Father of English Geology’. He produced the first geological map of England and Wales, and the Rotunda Museum in Scarborough was built to house his collections. Much of the groundwork for his maps was carried out in Yorkshire, particularly while he was based in Hackness on the North York Moors. This booklet takes the reader on a geological trail, just under 5 miles long, around the Jurassic deposits of the Hackness Hills. It interprets the geological features encountered, including quarries and rock exposures, as well as pointing out other features of interest, e.g. buildings and plantlife.

ISBN: 978-1-906604-63-9. Published 2017. Price £4.00 (incl. P & P)

Back from the Edge: the fall and rise of Yorkshire’s wildlife

Edited by Margaret Atherden, Ian D. Rotherham and Christine Handley

Over the pasta few decades, there have been many changes in the Yorkshire countryside, with dramatic effects on semi-natural habitats and their wildlife. The rapidly changing climate adds further challenges for flora and fauna. This book, based on papers delivered at a conference held in Sheffield, focuses on those species and habitats which are recovering and are experiencing a rise after a previous fall in their fortunes.

• Ian D. Rotherham: Yorkshire’s Forgotten Fenland • Melvyn Jones: ‘Woodman spare that tree’: the Rescue of South Yorkshire’s Ancient Woodlands • Colin Howes: Dial ‘P’ for Polecat: The return of the Polecat Mustela putorius to Yorkshire. • Keith Clarkson: The Changing Face of Breeding Birds in Yorkshire – a brief review 2012. • Chris Firth: Sustainability or Bust: the Fall and Rise of the Don’s Fish Population • Margaret Atherden: Roadside Assistance: management and conservation of North Yorkshire’s wayside flowers • Ian D. Rotherham: The Magic and Mysteries of Eccleshall Woods. • Rona Charles: The Cornfield Flowers Project • Ian D. Rotherham: Times they are a changing ….. Looking back to the future of Yorkshire’s wildlife.

ISBN: 978-1-904098-68-3 Second edition, 2018. Wildtrack Publishing

Yorkshire Woodlands

Edited by Margaret Atherden and Veronica Wallace

This book, dedicated to the memory of the great woodland historian Oliver Rackham, brings together recent research on woodlands in various parts of Yorkshire. Topics include woodland archaeology, detailed studies of lime trees in Swaledale and Teesdale, sigins of former wood pasture on the Pennines, the Yorkshire Arboretum near Castle Howard, and climate change and future forestry plantings. The papers were delivered at a conference held in Ilkley.

• Melvyn Jones: Walls, Woodbanks and Worked Trees: the Archaeology and Living Archaeology of Former Coppices and Wood Pastures • Tim Laurie: Relict Limewoods of the North East Pennine Fringe • Tom Lord: Wood Pasture in Upper Ribblesdale • John Weir: Forests for the Future: Planting Resilient Woodlands • John Grimshaw: The Yorkshire Arboretum • Terry O’Connor: A Walk to Mount Calvary and Middleton Woods

ISBN: 978-1-96604-62-2 Published 2017 Price: £8.00 (incl. P & P) Wild Flowers on the Edge: The Story of North Yorkshire’s Road Verges

Margaret Atherden and Nan Sykes

This book is the result of many years’ detailed fieldwork by the authors on road verges throughout North Yorkshire. To many people the road verge is merely a strip of vegetation marking the boundary between the road and the adjacent landscape. However, verges fulfil many functions, e.g. strips of farmland, conduits for utilities, passage for pedestrians and animals. They are also home to a wide range of plants and animals and form an important network of habitats, linking up woodlands, meadows and wetlands. The book provides background information on the history, uses and management of road verges and discusses their conservation. The bulk of the book is a record of the variety of plants found during the research. Information is arranged in a series of original plates (e.g. ‘Down in the Ditch’, ‘Salt Lovers’, ‘White Umbrellas’) illustrating all the plants and how to identify them. The book is illustrated by very high quality colour photographs throughout.

ISBN: 978-1-906604-40-0 Published 2012 Price: £12.95 (incl. P & P)

The Future of the Uplands: Prospects for Northern England

Edited by Margaret Atherden and Veronica Wallace

Uplands form some of the most valued and iconic landscapes in Yorkshire. This set of scholarly papers, delivered at a conference held in York, discusses the current challenges and future management of some of these landscapes.

• Rob Stoneman: Catastrophic Climate Change: Peatlands to the Rescue • Vince Carter: Slowing the Flow: the Role of Woodland in the Water Agenda • Lois Mansfield: Rural Development: Supporting the ‘Third Leg’ for Sustainable Upland Farming • John O’Reilly: What are Upland Hay Meadows and how do we conserve them? • Blaise Vyner, Richard Fraser and Damien Ronan: Managing the Historic Environment of the Yorkshire Uplands • Roger Martlew: Upland Quarries as Past and Future Landscapes

ISBN: 978-1-906604-53-0 Published 2014 Price: £7.50 (incl. P & P)

‘Letters from America’: Nineteenth Century Emigrants Writing Home to Yorkshire

Michael F. Hopkinson

From the late eighteenth century, and particularly during the nineteenth, some economic migrants moved from Yorkshire to the United States of America. Many were poor and sought a better life in the New World. Some of them wrote letters home that record insights into their journeys, settlement and domestic lives. The author of this booklet has researched surviving letters from both record offices and private collections. He describes the emigrants’ experiences of the journey to the USA, the process of settling there and finding work and the living conditions in their new country. There are also some surviving letters to the emigrants from their families back home. Together they provide a fascinating socio-economic record of nineteenth century emigration.

ISBN: 978-0-9553424-9-3 Second impression 2017 Price: £3.50 (incl. P & P)

Approaching the Village: a PLACE research study

Edited by Michael Hopkinson

This book is based on a research study of York and some of the surrounding villages, carried out by members of PLACE. It considers the historical evolution of the villages and their changing forms and functions. It also includes a section on how villages have been recorded and portrayed in film. The villages studies are: New Earswick, Heworth, the Poppletons, Copmanthorpe, Bishopthorpe, Fulford, Stockton on Forest and a contrasting study of the seaside village of Hunmanby, East Yorkshire.

ISBN: 978-1-906604-61-5 Published 2016 Price: £5.00 (incl. P & P)

Yorkshire’s Religious Heritage c.1780-c.1910

Edited by Peter J. Hills and Veronica Wallace

This book is a celebration of the contribution of religion to our cultural heritage in the ‘long nineteenth century’. It was a period of major changes, starting with the ministry of John Wesley and the development of Methodism. Another important contribution was made by the Quakers. There were also changes in the Church of England, particularly the Evangelical Revival and the Oxford Movement, and the period also saw the end of persecution of Roman Catholics. The papers were delivered at a conference in Harrogate.

• George Herring: Declines and Revivals: An overview of the Church of England from 1780 to 1910 • Barbara Windle: ‘Let your life speak’: putting religious experience into social action • Paul Toy: Divisions in the Methodist movement in the early nineteenth century • Leo Gooch: The Yorkshire Catholics before and after 1850 • Paul Toy: Developments in religious music in the nineteenth century • Peter J. Hills: The Parish Church in the nineteenth century, restored and new

ISBN: 978-1-906604-59-2 Published 2016 Price: £4.50 (incl. P & P)

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 in the Towns of the West Riding and York

Martin Knight

The 1918-19 influenza pandemic is thought to have killed 50-100 million people worldwide and an estimated 200,000 in England, including over 8000 in York and the towns of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This booklet is the product of meticulous documentary research by the author. It includes information on the disease itself and how it spread, medical services and care, vaccination and measures to limit the spread of the disease, social conditions at the time and the effect of the pandemic on the economy. Although written before the discovery of the 2019 Coronavirus, the booklet reveals many fascinating parallels between the two pandemics.

ISBN: 978-1-906604-56-1 Published 2015 Price: £3.50 (incl. P & P)

Yorkshire’s Historic Landscapes and Buildings at Risk

Edited by George Sheeran and Veronica Wallace

The nine papers presented in this booklet, delivered at a conference in York, cover a wide range of sites considered to be at risk, from archaeological studies and managed landscapes to individual buildings. The roles of aerial survey and environmental stewardship are also discussed.

• Dave MacLeod: Aerial Survey and Heritage at Risk • Tom Lord: Victoria Cave, Settle: a Neglected Monument of Victorian Science • Margaret Nieke: How Environmental Stewardship can help Heritage at Risk: Castle Howard and Beyond • Brian Walker: Heritage on the Public Forest Estate – a Risky Business? • Christopher J. Dunn and Anthony M. Berry: Preservation through Survey and Record: the Archaeology of the Yorkshire River Foss Navigation • Phil Abramson: Stewardship of WW II Heritage Assets on the MOD Estate in Yorkshire • Michael Thomson: Gayle Mill – Restoration of an Industrial-Heritage Gem in Wensleydale • George Sheeran: St Ives, Harden: the Erosion of a Nineteenth-Century Landscape • Janet Douglas: York Road Library, Leeds

ISBN: 978-1-906604-38-7 Published 2011 Price: £4.50 (incl. P & P)

Historical Landscapes of Yorkshire Textile Manufacture

Edited by Veronica Wallace

The textile industry was an important part of Yorkshire’s economy for several centuries and has left an impressive legacy of mills and other buildings in the landscape, especially of the Pennines. This book, based on papers delivered at a conference in Burley-in-Wharfedale, focuses on the urban environments and landscapes that the industry has given rise to from the eighteenth century onwards.

• George Sheeran: Defining the Yorkshire Textile Industry: Culture, Geography and Products • Colum Giles: Landscapes of Commerce and Industry: Halifax and its Area, 1500-1900 • Alan Petford: Settlement, Society and Textiles in Saddleworth, 1750-1900 • Nigel Grizzard: From Loom to Bedroom: Changing the Use of Yorkshire’s Mills • Terry O’Connor: Burley-in-Wharfedale: an Introductory Ramble.

ISBN: 9788-1-906604-46-2 Published 2013 Price: £4.50 (incl. P & P)

Six Yorkshire Legacies

Michael Hopkinson

This booklet focuses on six people or families associated with Yorkshire, and their legacies in the physical and cultural landscape.

• A Sense of Proportion: the Architect and his Aristocrat. John Carr (1723- 1807) • The Robber Baron: George Hudson (1800-1870) • Piecework and Paternalism: Titus Salt (1803-1876) • The Chocolate Village: Joseph (1834-1925) and Seebohm (1871-1954) Rowntree • The Seaside in Winter: Life with the Sitwells (1870s-1920s) • Art, Controversy and Conservation: William Etty (1787-1861)

ISBN: 978-1-906604-39-4 Second impression 2015 Price: £4.50 (incl. P & P)

Yorkshire Market Towns: not just for shopping

Michael Hopkinson

The booklet reports the findings of a survey by PLACE members of twenty- one market towns and seventeen open markets, mostly in North Yorkshire. The surveyors recorded the use of premises providing goods and services and also residential properties within the central retail/commercial zones of the towns. The findings indicate that, although food retailing is no longer the major shopping focus, the hospitality trades are important, especially in tourist or heritage centres. Craft and gift shops are also important. The detailed findings provide a snapshot in time and form an interesting baseline survey against which future changes can be measured. Towns studied:

• Bedale • Otley • Beverley • Pateley Bridge • Boroughbridge • Pickering • Easingwold • Reeth • Grassington • Ripon • Hawes • Selby • Helmsley • Settle • Kirkbymoorside • Skipton • Knaresborough • Thirsk • Leyburn • Malton • Northallerton Prehistory in the Yorkshire Dales: recent research and future prospects

Edited by R.D. Martlew

This set of scholarly papers, produced by PLACE and the Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust and supported by high quality archaeological maps and photographs, summarises recent research in the Yorkshire Dales and examines future prospects.

• Terry O’Connor: The changing environment of the Yorkshire Dales during the Late and Post-Glacial Periods • Roger Jacobi and Tom Lord: The Earliest Humans in the Yorkshire Dales National Park • Tim Taylor: Caves in Context: Research Agendas for the Underground Environment • Tom Lord: The Early Neolithic skeletons from Elbolton Cave, Wharfedale: Europe’s oldest mummies? • Alan King: A Review of the Land Use and Settlement of the Ingleborough Massif throughout the Prehistoric and Romano-British Periods • T. C. Laurie et al: Co-axial field systems in Swaledale: a reassessment following recent fieldwork • Roger Martlew: Late Prehistory and the Roman Iron Age in Upper Wharfedale: problems, potential and progress

ISBN: 978-81-906604-35-6 Published 2011 Price: £13.00 (incl. P & P)

Medieval Studies in the Yorkshire Dales: aspects of history, archaeology and landscape

Edited by Roger Martlew

This second set of papers on the Yorkshire Dales, produced by PLACE and the Yorkshire Dales Landscape Research Trust, is illustrated to a very high standard and demonstrates a high level of scholarship.

• Ian Wood: Early Sculpture in Wharfedale • Glyn Coppack: Fountains Abbey and Recent Developments in Cistercian Studies • Mike Spence: Interpretation of Fourteenth-Century Malham from Documentary Sources • David Johnston: A field survey of the Manors of Ingleton and Twisleton-and-Ellerbeck: piecing together the evidence • Susan Wrathmell: The Legacy of Medieval Building in the Craven Dales • Ian Whyte and Helen Shaw: Post-medieval vegetation and landscape change in Upper Ribblesdale: resilience and stability in farming

ISBN: 978-1-906604-48-6 Published 2014 Price: £13.00 (incl. P & P)

The Yorkshire Coast in 2014

Edited by Brian Walker and Veronica Wallace

As an island nation, our heritage is inextricably linked to the sea. The Yorkshire coast exemplifies how these links have shaped our past, influence our lives today and will shape them into the future. The papers in this booklet, delivered at a conference held in Scarborough, consider the physical characteristics of the Yorkshire coast, the industries developed along it, the growth of seaside towns, recreation, and the need for conservation of marine and coastal habitats.

• Steve Livera: The Geology of the Yorkshire Moors and Coast • Kirsten Carter: Developing Marine Protected Areas for the North Sea • Robb Robinson: Dynamic Energetic Coast: the East Riding, its People and the Sea • Chris Scott and Gillian Eadie: The Assessment of Threatened Scheduled Coastal Alum Working Sites in the North York Moors National Park • John Beech: The North Yorkshire and Cleveland Heritage Coast: looking back and planning ahead

ISBN: 978-1-906604-54-7 Published 2015 Price: £4.50 (incl .P & P)

Yorkshire Food and Diet: history, production and consumption

Edited by Veronica Wallace

Yorkshire has long been involved in food production: the chocolate factories of York city and the fields have helped to feed both locals and those further afield. This booklet looks at both local and global food production and the changes in diet that have taken place over the past few centuries. Also included are some local recipes.

• Judith Ward: Rhubarb and Rocket: Allotment Gardening in Changing Times • Alex Hutchinson: The Golden Age of Confectionery in York • Peter Brears: Workers’ Diets in Mid-Victorian Yorkshire • Eileen White: Providing Food for the City and Home in the 16th to 18th Centuries • Helen Hoult: Milling at Holgate Windmill • Roger Lee: Roger’s Recipes

ISBN: 978-1-906604-42-4 Published 2013 Price: £4.50 (incl. P & P)

Langdale Forest: A case of mistaken identity

Brian Walker

Many people assume that Forestry Commission plantations are of little value to wildlife. In this booklet, the author challenges this assumption, using the example of Langdale Forest on the North York Moors. He shows that the forested area contains a rich diversity of habitats and wildlife, including the verges alongside forest tracks, waterways and wetlands, remnants of ancient woodland, and long- term open spaces, e.g. peat bogs. He also shows how the forest has preserved cultural heritage, from Bronze Age barrows to remains of 18th and 19th century rabbit warrens. Birdlife in the forests reflects the different stages of the conifer crop, with species such as great grey shrike found on felled and regenerating areas and species such as crossbills found on mature trees. The forests also provide habitats for invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians.

ISBN: 978-81-906604-47-9 Published 2014 Price: £4.50 (incl. P & P)

Unfolding the Landscape: Malham, North Yorkshire

Terry O’Connor

The Malham area in the Yorkshire Dales is one of our best-loved landscapes. In this booklet, the author reveals the different layers of the landscape, starting with the solid geology that forms the backbone of the area and then considering the effects of the Ice Age in sculpting the landforms. The vegetation cover and the impact of both wild animals and domesticated ones, especially sheep, are examined. The role of people is considered, including prehistoric earthworks and documentary records. The underground landscape is also described, as the many caves in the area hold their own records of human activity from prehistoric time onwards. Finally, the history of Malham Village is revealed from the earliest settlement to the modern tourist impact.

ISBN: 978-1-906604-50-9 Published 2014 Price: £4.50 (incl. P & P)

Yorkshire Landscapes Past and Present

Edited by Margaret Atherden and Tim Milsom

This set of scholarly papers, delivered at a conference held in York, is the result of a collaboration between PLACE and the Society for Landscape Studies. Topics range from a study of how landscapes have been portrayed over the years, through studies of woodlands and medieval landscapes to inter-disciplinary research projects enabling whole landscapes to be reconstructed.

• Robin Butlin: Images of North Yorkshire landscapes c.1600-2000 • George Peterken: Applying the Habitat Network Concept to forest restoration and management in the North York Moors and Howardian Hills • Ian Dormor: Tenure and purpose: two key determinants of woodland character in the Yorkshire Dales • Stephen Moorhouse: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding historic landscapes • Robert Wright: The granges and estates of Kirkstall Abbey: consolidation and local impact • Jane Wheeler: The environmental impacts of iron-working on the woodlands of Rievaulx and Bilsdale, North York Moors, UK, c.1132- 1647 • Andy J. Howard, Mark H. Whyman, Keith Challis and Kay McManus: Recent work on the geomorphological and archaeological landscape of the Vale of York • W.A. Mitchell, J.B. Innes, D.R. Bridgland, A.J. Long, M.M. Rutherford and S. Warwick: Landscape Evolution of the Swale-Ure washlands

ISBN: 978-0-9553424-0-0 Published 2008 Price: £8.00 (incl. P & P)

Yorkshire Names and Dialects

Edited by Margaret Atherden

The papers in this booklet are by renowned experts and are on the common theme of how names and words have been used in the landscape of Yorkshire. Topics range from studies of Anglo-Saxon and Viking place- names, through the study of personal and family names, to the variations in dialect across Yorkshire.

• Margaret Gelling: Place-names and Landscape in Yorkshire • Gillian Fellows-Jensen: The Vikings in Yorkshire: the place-name evidence • Paul Cavill: The Last Word? After the Yorkshire Place-name Survey • George Redmonds: Some Regional Characteristics of Yorkshire Surnames • Jonathan Robinson: Sounds Familiar! A web-based archive of Yorkshire voices past and present • Melvyn Jones: A sense of place and a way of speech: West Riding dialect words and expressions in the children’s stories of Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) • Arnold Kellett: The Origin and Variety of Yorkshire Dialect • Arnold Kellett: Yorkshire Dialect Humour

ISBN: 0-9540664-6-4 Published 2006 Price: £4.50 (incl. P & P) Land Use, Ecology and Conservation in the Lower Derwent Valley

Edited by Tim Milsom

The Lower Derwent Valley is Yorkshire’s premier floodplain wetland and a remnant of a much larger wetland area draining into the Humber. The meadows are of international importance for their flora and birdlife, especially winter waterfowl, and the area is a National Nature Reserve, a Ramsar site (wetland of international importance) and a Special Protection Area for birds. This collection of research papers contains a wealth of detailed information on the area, its land-use and history, its wildlife and its hydrology.

• Stephen Warburton: Land use history of the ings from documentary sources • Tim P. Milsom: A brief ecological history of the seasonally flooded grasslands in the Lower Derwent Valley • Richard G. Jefferson: The nature conservation importance of the plant communities of the Lower Derwent Valley: a national perspective • Roy Crossley: Some observations on the insects of the Lower Derwent Valley, with special reference to Diptera • Mike L. Denton and Robert J. Marsh: The Copeoptera (beetles) of the Lower Derwent Valley Lower Derwent Valley • Gordon Woodroffe: Riparian mammals of the Lower Derwent Valley • C. A. Howes: Blob-kite’s last stand: the decline of the Burbot Lota lota L. (Gadidae) in the Lower Derwent Valley • David Gowing: The importance of hydrological regime for the meadow plant communities of seasonally flooded grassland • R. N. Humphries and P. R. Benyon: Grassland community dynamics in relation to hydrological regimes within the Lower Derwent Valley • Liz Chalk and Mark Bentley: Modelling processes for the sustainable management of the Lower Derwent Valley

ISBN: 0-9540664-9-9 Published 2006 Price: £8.00 (incl. P & P)

People, Places and Species – a History of the study of Wasps, Ants and Bees in Watsonian Yorkshire

Michael Archer

This book, written by an international expert on wasps, ants and bees, considers the people involved in the study of these insects in Yorkshire; the life-histories and resource needs of the insects, and the habitats in which they are found. It includes a section on recording and the problems of verifying records.

ISBN: 978-1-904-44632-3 Published 2011 Price: £5.00 (incl. P & P) Yorkshire Names and Dialects

Edited by Margaret Atherden

The papers in this booklet, delivered at a conference in York, are by renowned experts and are on the common theme of how names and words have been used in the landscape of Yorkshire. Topics range from studies of Anglo-Saxon and Viking place-names, through the study of personal and family names, to the variations in dialect across Yorkshire.

ISBN: 0-9540664-6-4 Published 2006 Price: £4.50 (incl. P & P)

A Guide to the Wetland Heritage of the Vale of Pickering

Noël Menuge

Once a vast wetland area, the Vale of Pickering is today rich farmland. This book explains how this transformation came about and describes the history of drainage of the area, using documentary sources and oral history. The wildlife of the Vale is also described.

ISBN: 0-9524970-9-3 Published 2001 Price: £2.50 (incl. P & P) OLDER PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE AT REDUCED PRICES

Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness: Fruit, food and wildlife in Yorkshire’s countryside

Edited by Margaret Atherden

Orchards used to be a common and valued part of the Yorkshire countryside, important for both food supplies and wildlife. However, over the past few decades, many orchards have been lost, along with many local varieties of fruit. This booklet, based on papers delivered at a conference in Harrogate, celebrates Yorkshire’s orchard heritage and shows some of the ways orchards are now being appreciated and put to new uses.

• Barry Potter: Old Orchards, new possibilities • Simon Clark: What is it? Where is it? Is it local? • Philip Lyth: Orchards for wildlife • David Chesmore: Moths in old orchards • Pat Wilson: The lost orchards of Nidderdale • Laura Mason: Slow Food and the orchard heritage

ISBN: 978-1-906604-18-9 Published 2009 Price: £2.00 (incl. P & P)

Global Warming: a Yorkshire Perspective

Edited by Margaret Atherden

This book, written by key researchers and based on presentations at a conference held in York, considers the predictions for climate change in the Yorkshire region, how global warming will affect the landscape and its wildlife, and what could be done to address the issues.

• John Lawton: Climate change, nature conservation, and the northern Yorkshire region • Richard Chiverrell: Longer-term perspectives on climate change from the North York Moors • Stuart Lane: More floods, less rain? Changing hydrology in a Yorkshire context • Anthony Long: Past and future sea-level change in Yorkshire • Philip Grime: Climate change: can we predict future impacts on the British flora? • Pamela Berry, T.P. Dawson, P.A. Harrison and R.G. Pearson: Climate Change – all change? Modelling habitat and species distributions: a Yorkshire perspective • Lance Saxby: Epilogue: the challenge of a warmer York

ISBN: 0-9540664-2-1 Published 2003 Price: £3.00 (incl. P & P)

Wetlands in the Landscape: Archaeology, Conservation, Heritage

Edited by Margaret Atherden

Wetlands are widespread in Britain, from upland blanket bogs to coastal marshes. They have the capacity to preserve their own history through the preservation of organic materials, thus providing an archive for study by ecologists and archaeologists. The scholarly papers in this book illustrate the wide variety of research projects based on wetlands.

• John Coles: Wetland Archaeology: values and problems at AD2000 • Peter J. Davey, Jeff J. Blackford, Richard C. Chiverrell, Jim B. Innes and Philippa R. Tomlinson: The Curragh and other lowland wetlands of the Isle of Man • Jason R. Kirby and Benjamin R. Gearey: Pattern and Process of Holocene vegetation and wetland development in the Humber lowlands • Tim Milsom: Agri-environment schemes and the conservation of biodiversity of wetlands in England and Wales • Peter Halkon: Water and wood – change and continuity in East Yorkshire wetland • Ian Panter: The survival of waterlogged wood from archaeological deposits • Margaret Atherden and Bob Missin: The Vale of Pickering Wetlands Project • Bryony Coles, P.R.F. Chanin, J.G. Evans and J. Hatton: Notes on landscape modification by present-day beaver in western Europe and the interpretation of the palaeoenvironmental record • Ian Rotherham and Geoff Cartwright: Urban Wetland Conservation: case studies in environmental and economic renewal

ISBN: 0-9540664-0-5 Published 2001 Price: £3.00

‘Heaven Consists of Working Men’s Clubs’. The origins and early years of the Club and Institute Union 1860- 1920

Glyn Edwards

There were great changes in the lives of British people between 1860 and 1920, driven by industrialisation and rapid population growth. There were also changes in attitudes towards poverty, community, voluntary activity and the role of the state. The Working Men’s Club and Institute Union was an important organisation, offering working people places for relaxation. By 2000 there were c.4000 clubs and 4 million members. This booklet is a scholarly history of the movement, illustrated by black and white photographs.

ISBN: 0-9524970-4-2 Published 2000 Price: £ 2.00 (incl. P & P)

Threatened Wasps, Ants and Bees (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) in Watsonian Yorkshire: A Red Data Book

Michael E. Archer

This booklet is an audit of threatened wasps, ants and bees in Yorkshire, made at the end of the 20th century. It includes 107 species, representing about one third of the species found in Yorkshire, 19 of which had not been recorded since 1970.

ISBN: 0-9524970-1-8 Published 1998 Price: £2.00 (incl. P & P)

Climate Change on the North York Moors

Noël James Menuge

Whilst there is now a wealth of research on current changes in climate, there are fewer studies of longer-term changes. This booklet is based on documentary records for the North York Moors from the fifth century onwards. Many of the records concern weather rather than climate and many are associated with flooding, e.g. particularly wet years, or farming, e.g. crop failures. Despite the varying level of reliability of the documentary sources, the records make fascinating reading and together they build up a picture of the changing climate of this part of North Yorkshire.

ISBN: 0-9524970-0-X Published 1997 Price: £2.00 (incl. P & P)

Town and Country: Contemporary Issues at the Rural/Urban Interface

Edited by Michael F. Hopkinson

This is a collection of papers focusing on changes at the interface between town and country, delivered at a conference held in York. Written at the turn of the century by leading researchers in the field, they form an interesting point against which to assess the current situation.

• Marion Shoard: Recreation in the Rural/Urban Interface • Michael Hopkinson: Beyond the Fringe: Land use change at York’s urban margin • Lynn Crowe, Melvyn Jones and Karen Smyth: Untested Assumptions and Unequal Opportunities: Informal recreation access issues in the urban fringe countryside • Geoff Lomas and Glenn Gorner: Community and Agency Interaction at the Urban and Rural Interface • Adam Menuge: Belle Isle and the Invention of the Lake District: an exploration of meanings and process • Andrew Sclater: Industrial Elysium: Smithills Estate, Bolton – from hamlet to heritage centre?

ISBN: 0-9524970-5-0 Published 1999 Price: £3.00 (incl. P & P)

Assault and Battery in North Yorkshire Pews

Dr John Addy

After the Reformation, sermons assumed a greater significance in church services, necessitating the erection of pews and stalls for the congregation to sit in comfortably. This entertaining booklet recounts some of the many disputes that arose over pews, many of which make hilarious reading today. The booklet is based on original research by the author and illustrated with black and white photographs of some of the North Yorkshire churches which retain their historic pews and stalls.

ISBN: 0-9524970-3-4 Published 1999 Price: £2.00 (incl. P & P)

The York Diocesan Society – the Provision and Staffing of National Schools 1812-1840

Dr John Addy

This booklet was produced by the then College of Ripon and York St John to mark the 175th anniversary of the foundation of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the poor in the Principles of the Established Church. The National Society and the Diocesan Society aimed to establish a National School in each parish. The booklet gives a detailed historical account of the development of these schools in Yorkshire, including the training of teachers. It contains information which will be of great interest to students of the development of education.

ISBN: 0-9511738-0-4 Published 1986 Price: £2.00 (incl. P & P)

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The Changing Role of Yorkshire’s Waterways

Edited by Veronica Wallace

Based on papers delivered at a conference in the Yorkshire Waterways Museum in Goole, this booklet looks at the historical development of Yorkshire’s waterways, both natural and man-made, their international links and their potential roles in conservation and recreation.

• Michael F. Hopkinson: ‘A Desperate and Dangerous Design’: the development of the Yorkshire Waterways • Robb Robinson: Far Horizons: some aspects of Hull and the River Hull’s enduring international links • Judy Jones: Conservation and Recreation on the Waterways • Bob Watson: The Sobriety Project and the Port of Goole

ISBN: 978-1-906604-34-9 Published 2012 Price: £1.00 as pdf

Yorkshire’s Folk Heroes and Legends

Edited by Aileen Bloomer

The papers in this entertaining booklet, based on a conference in Knaresborough, take us into the realms of imagination and myth. They tell the stories of real people who became heroes or legends in their day and examine the basis of the tales about others whose very existence is largely mythical. Some of the many Yorkshire legends, such as those about dragons and secret passages, are also explored.

• James Sharpe: Dick Turpin • Barrie Dobson: Robin Hood • Peter Hogarth: Yorkshire Dragon Legends • Peter V. Addyman: Yorkshire’s Secret Passage Legends • David Hunt: Mother Shipton • David Hunt: Blind Jack • James Gregory: Yorkshire Oddities: Local Characters and Yorkshire Identity

978-1-906604-36-3 Published 2011 Price: £1.00 as pdf

Yorkshire’s Green and Healthy Land? Connecting urban and rural greenspace

Edited by Margaret Atherden, Aileen Bloomer and Veronica Wallace

The 21st century has seen increasing public awareness of the links between health and the environment and an appreciation of the importance of greenspaces to both humans and wildlife. The papers in this booklet, produced by PLACE and the Royal Geographical Society following a conference in Leeds, explore a range of issues connected with greenspace, from urban planning and green belts to nature conservation and sustainable management of the uplands.

• Sir John Lawton: Urban Green Space and Human Health: the View of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution • Rachael Unsworth: Liveable Cities • Andy Smith: Does the Environment Determine Health Enhancing Physical Activity or is it all in the Genes? • Joseph Holden et al: Sustainable Uplands for Sustainable Lowlands • Simon Warwick: A New Future for Yorkshire’s Wetland Past • Alan Simson: Trees in the Post-Industrial Landscape and the Writing of the ‘Third Poetry’ • Chris Marshall: Greening the Green Belt

ISBN: 978-1-906604-31-8 Published 2010 Price: £1.00 as pdf A Walk in the Park: Heritage and Conservation in York’s Open Spaces

Edited by Margaret Atherden

York’s parks, gardens and strays fulfil multiple functions in the 21st century, including amenity, nature conservation, recreation and agriculture. The papers in the booklet, based on a conference in York, explore the archaeology and history of York’s open spaces, their wildlife value and changes in land use on the urban fringe. The booklet includes accounts of visits to the Museum Gardens and Rowntree Park.

• John Oxley: Green Icing on the Sponge Cake of York: Parks, Gardens and Archaeology • Sarah West and Carolyn Snell: Historic Mapping of Tang Hall, York: Methodologies and Findings • Bob Missin: York’s Parks and Open Spaces: Past, Present and Future • Michael Hopkinson: Return to the Margin: Changes in Land Use on the Edge of York

ISBN: 978-1-906604-30-1 Published 2010 Price: £1.00 as pdf

Digging for Brass: The Impact of the Extractive Industries on the Yorkshire Landscape

Edited by George Sheeran

This book, developed from papers delivered at a conference in Bradford, focuses on how the geology has spawned mining and quarrying industries in Yorkshire. The county’s mineral wealth was based on a wide variety of materials, including coal, building stones, lime, lead, iron and alum.

• David Cotton: An Overview of Yorkshire’s Geology • Eileen White: Under the Barren Hill: Mining for Stone in Idle • Robert White: Limestone and the Lime Industry in the Yorkshire Dales • Mike Gill: Lead Mining Landscapes • David Pybus: The Alum Industry in North-East Yorkshire: a preliminary view • Rosemary Preece: The Disappearing Landscapes of the Coal Industry • George Sheeran: A Rural Colliery and its Squire: Colsterdale, North Yorkshire

ISBN: 978-1-906604-12-7 Published 2009 Price: £1.00 as pdf Great Estates of Yorkshire

Edited by Veronica Wallace

Yorkshire has a wealth of large estates, some dating back to the medieval period, such as Fountains Abbey, others more recent in origin, such as the grouse-shooting estates of the Pennines. This book describes the history of some of our great estates and discusses their significance in the present day.

• Jonathan Finch: The Yorkshire Estate: people, place and the modern landscape • Robert Wright: The Estates of Kirkstall Abbey • George Sheeran: Landscapes of Rivalry: the Wentworth Estates • Tony Wright: Rise and Fall, Rise and Fall • Barbara Hickman: The Trees of Sheriff Hutton Park • Miles Johnson: Shooting Estates and the Landscape of the Yorkshire Dales • Mark Newman: ‘A place of public resort’: Studley Royal and its Visitors • George Sheeran: Sir Christopher Sykes and the Development of the Sledmere Estate

ISBN: 978-1-906604-11-0 Published 2012 Price: £1.00 pdf

City Walls – Their Conservation and Use

Edited by Michael F. Hokinson and Margaret A. Atherden

This booklet, based on a conference held in York, looks at the development, protection and modern usage of city walls. It considers changes in how walls have been utilised since their original defensive function became obsolete. It examines the processes and costs of maintaining the walls in the 21st century and some of the organisations involved in protecting them.

• Michael F. Hopkinson: ‘Going up the wall’: adaptive reuse of City Walls • Barbara Wilson: Walls and Bars: the testimony of the artist • Eric Branse-Instone: Assessing the Significance of York City Walls: the role of English Heritage • John Price: The Walled Towns Friendship Circle • David Kincaid: Canterbury City Walls • John Oxley: The Conservation and Interpretation of York City Walls • Rory McCarthy: Making best use of the City Walls: ‘2000 years in a 2 mile walk’ • Michael Tavener: The Repair and Restoration of the Walls of York

ISBN: 978-0-9553424-4-8 Published 2007 Price: £1.00 as pdf Wildlife and Conservation in the Bradford Area

Edited by Margaret Atherden

Representatives of local authorities, statutory organisations, voluntary bodies and local naturalists have contributed to the papers in this booklet, delivered at a conference held in Bradford, which focused on biodiversity and nature conservation in the Bradford area. The emphasis is on practical action to protect wildlife in both green spaces and brownfield sites.

• Anne Healey: A local Biodiversity Action Plan for the Bradford District • Marie Millward and Jonathan Hart-Woods: Nature Conservation and Heritage Management on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal • Ian Butterfield: Creating New Native Woodlands: the Forest of Bradford Project • Les Barnett: Conservation in the Aire Valley: the story of Bingley South Bog • Don Vine: The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s work in the Aire Valley • George Sheeran: Gardening in a Victorian city: land use, horticulture and design • Susan Stead: Shipley Station Butterfly Meadow • Colin Howes: The Urban Predator’s Good Food Guide: the ecology of Bradford’s urban cats, foxes and weasels • Terry O’Connor: Landscape and Birds in the Bradford Region

ISBN: 978-0-9553424-1-7 Published 2007 Price: £1.00 as pdf

Sustaining Historic Urban Environments

Edited by Carl Heron, George Sheeran and Jane Wheeler

This booklet, produced by PLACE and the University of Bradford and based on a conference held in Bradford, focuses on research into the historic urban environment and its preservation and regeneration. The papers explore strategies to protect and enhance the urban environment, especially urban regeneration schemes in West and South Yorkshire.

• George Sheeran: Whose city? Whose heritage? • Harmesh Jassal: Notes on the Bradford City Centre Masterplan: The use of public funds in improving historic areas • James Symonds: Celebrating Steel City: Archaeology from the brown earth • David Fraser: Changing Cities: The evolution of old places into the future • Caroline Wilkinson: Saltaire World Heritage Site: A future for the past • Alison Drake: Community Involvement in Uncovering and Owning our Historic Urban Environment • Sue Hayton: Heritage for All: Turning Theory into Practice

ISBN: 0-9540664-7-2 Published 2006 Price: £1.00 as pdf Agriculture and the Rural Landscape

Edited by Margaret A. Atherden

This booklet focuses on the historical legacy of past farming practices, as seen in the landscape today, and the challenges of conserving this legacy for the future. Written at the turn of the century and based on papers delivered at a conference in York, the booklet includes information on grant schemes current at the time.

• Ian Dormor: Archaeology and Agriculture – Management by Incentives • Amy Lax and Marcus Jecock: Aerial Photography and Agriculture: the Growing Picture • Heather M. Beaumont: Walls and Fields in Wharfedale • Alison C. Armstrong: Laithes, Field Barns and Hennery-piggeries in the Pennine Dales • Richard Fuller: Givendale – A Farm in Harmony with Nature • Heather M. Beaumont and Keith H. Harrison: Resources for Research in Local History • Amanda Mathews: Public Perceptions of Agricultural Landscapes • Stuart Pasley: Public Policy and Grant Schemes

ISBN: 0-9524970-7-7 Published 2000 Price: £1.00 as pdf