Four pre-enclosure village maps

About this volume

The four parts of the volume were published separately between 1928 and 1934. Each contains a large scale reproduction map of the village’s pre-enclosure field system and a detailed analysis of the ownership and usage of the land.

Part 1 ‘The strip map of Oakley Reynes 1795, with an introduction to the study of field-maps’ (pp.1-15 plus a large fold-out map)

Part 2 ‘The pre-enclosure map of Renhold 1781’ (pp.17-19 plus a large fold-out map)

Part 3 ‘The strip-map of Aspley Guise c.1745, with an analysis of the enclosure award 1761’ (pp.21-35 plus a large fold-out map, figures and tables)

Part 4 ‘The strip-map of Eversholt, 1764 with notes on the strip-map of Houghton Regis, 1762’ (pp. 37-53)

Index to the whole volume, p. 54-5

About the author(s)

G. Herbert Fowler (22)

Dr G. Herbert Fowler (1861-1940) was a zoologist working in London before he retired to Bedfordshire, where he became a county councillor and chairman of the county’s Records Committee in 1913. He immediately reformed the existing record room, established standard procedures and ran it as a public service, the first in the country. He was a founder member of BHRS in 1912 and its Secretary, General Editor and principal contributor to the annual volumes until his death. He also published extensively on sources in Buckinghamshire and elsewhere.

Publication details

Four pre-enclosure village maps, by G. Herbert Fowler. Aspley Guise, BHRS, 1928-1934. 55p. Quarto memoirs, vol. 2.

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Keywords

Aspley Guise (3)

enclosure (1)

Eversholt (1)

Houghton Regis (2)

maps (22)

Oakley Reynes (1)

Renhold (2)