LANDSCAPE HISTORY DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTH WEST Edited by Sharon M. Varey and Graeme J. White with an Introduction by Dai Morgan Evans From optical remote-sensing technology (lidar) to more traditional forms of landscape analysis and documentary research, this volume brings together the work of both amateur and professional historians and archaeologists, united in their enthusiasm for the landscape of north-west England and north-east Wales. This collection of research papers arose from the Chester Society for Landscape History’s 25th anniversary conference and includes a wealth of illustrations. The publication offers new insights into a wide range of features indicative of the region’s history between the twelfth and the twentieth centuries, including residential buildings, settlement patterns, the names and boundaries of fi elds, and the legacy of developments in transport and industrialisation: a collection of ‘landscape discoveries’ to be shared. Introduction: New Roads for Old: Dai Morgan Evans Cheshire Turnpikes in the Landscape, Stanlow Abbey: 1700-1850: A Twenty-First Century Assessment of a Alan G. Crosby Twelfth-Century Cistercian Monastery: An East Cheshire Stewart Ainsworth Township in Transition: Curvilinear Enclosures The Early Industrial Landscape in the Cheshire Landscape: of Bollington: Anthony Annakin-Smith Tom Swailes Settlements and In Brief: their Shapes in North-East Wales: Selected Field-Names Mike Headon of Cheshire and its Borders: The Enclosure of West Cheshire: CSLH Field-Names Research Group Keeping Ahead of ‘Champion England’: Graeme J. White The Rise and Fall of Llanbedr Hall, near Ruthin (Denbighshire): A Description and History Rod Cox of Walk Mill on the River Gowy in Foulk Stapleford: Dawpool Hall Estate, Thurstaston, John Whittle Wirral: The Home of Sir Thomas Henry Black and White Houses Ismay, Shipping Magnate: to Black and White Cows: John Lowe The Farming Economy Lifelong Learning: of a Shropshire Parish: Julie E. Smalley Sharon M. Varey Bibliographic information Sharon M. Varey & Graeme J. White (Eds) University of Chester Press Landscape History Discoveries Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ in the North West 2012 Tel: +44 (0)1244 513305 Fax: +44 (0)1244 511302 ISBN 978-1-908258-00-7 Email: sarah.griffi [email protected] £12.99 http://www.chester.ac.uk/university-press.