The Historic Landscape of Devon: A Study in Change and Continuity

This book discuss the nineteenth-century historic landscape of Devon though the creation, manipulation, and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database to examine physical evidence of change and development through field and settlement patterns. The relationship between field and settlement morphologies and patterns of Tithe Surveys landholding is discussed for three case-study areas in Devon developing the idea of landscape pays and the identification of regional differences in the study of the historic landscape.