Other Stuff



These are links to posts on the history, places and character of the region and its landscape, intended to accompany the more locally focused notes on my cycle route notes. Some of the old content on other offbeat places can now be found on my other website, www.oildrumlane.co.uk . 

The Backstory 

Shaping the Land 

The Deep Past                          Intro & Apologia
1.   Hell to High Water                 Creation to Extinction
2.   Coming Up For Air                  England Arrives. 
3.   Mud                                       How our stones started life
4.   The Chalk                                 The Chalk Landscapes
5.   Chilling Out                           The Ice Ages
6.  (Deleted) 
7.   Welcome Homo                   Hunters & Gatherers
8.   Enter The Flintstones          The First Farmers
9.   Bronze & Iron                      Stonehenge to Silchester 
10. Britons to Saxons                Anglo-Saxon SE England 
11. Medieval Countryside          The 'Open Field' system 
12. The Planned Countryside    Enclosure
13. The 'Ancient' Countryside    Resisting Change 
14  Today & Tomorrow                 What you will see now & next.

Also: 

Relics or Rebuilds? 

Thousands. Not all forts. 

Finally : 

Pootling Tech


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