The Making of the Hexhamshire Landscape

Hexhamshire is today a quiet and beautiful pastoral corner of the Northumbrian landscape between the Tyne Valley and the North Pennine fells. However, poised between lowland and highland, it has seen great changes over thousands of years in how people have used its resources and have left their mark.

 

This fascinating and well-researched new history of the 'Shire's' landscape charts the broad sweep of its history from the last ice age to the present day, lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs. Although focused on one bewitching corner of the English north-east it prompts wider consideration of the human and climatic drivers of landscape change in Britain.



"The density of the content could easily be overwhelming and difficult to present but the author has a very accessible and engaging writing style and handles the material extremely well. Special mention must be made of the generous and high-quality illustrations throughout...Congratulations to the Hexham Local History Society for publishing this work. It is never an easy task and the society and its committee should be warmly commended for doing so." The British Association for Local History