Download or read book Alston Moor Cumbria written by Lucy Jessop and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alston Moor is a large rural parish in Cumbria which historically both depended upon and provided important services for the agricultural and mineral industries of the North Pennines.Much of the area's settlement is dispersed among hamlets and single farmsteads. Isolated from major northern cities such as Carlisle and Newcastle by the surrounding hills and moors, the parish's wild upland landscape provides a conditioning influence on a distinctive tradition of vernacular building types, ranging from the bastle to its later 18th- and 19th-century derivatives and 'mine shops' providing lodgings for miners close to their place of work. Found across the parish, and with urban variants present in Alston itself, these buildings have in common first-floor living accommodation whilst the ground floor is used for cow-byres in more rural areas and for general storage, workshops and shops in urban and industrial contexts. This development of the bastle, a fortified house type found on both sides of the Anglo-Saxon border is nationally significant yet remains under-examined at the level of architectural and historical synthesis. This publication presents an informed account of Alston Moor's vernacular buildings from their earliest survival onwards, and sets them within their regional and national context. It explores how houses of various types combine with a rich legacy of public and industrial buildings to create places of distinctive character. It takes a whole-landscape view of the area, relating its buildings and settlements to the wider patterns of landscape evolution resulting from agricultural and industrial activity and the development of communications.

Download or read book Account of the Mining Districts of Alston Moor Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham written by Thomas Sopwith and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Moor written by William Atkins and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche. Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these vast expanses, but his journey is full of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past and present: murderers and monks, smugglers and priests, gamekeepers and ramblers, miners and poets, developers and environmentalists. As he travels, he shows us that the fierce landscapes we associate with Wuthering Heights and The Hound of the Baskervilles are far from being untouched wildernesses. Daunting and defiant, the moors echo with tales of a country and the people who live in it - a mighty, age-old landscape standing steadfast against the passage of time.

Download or read book A Tour from Alston Moor to Harrowgate and Brimham Crags written by Thomas Pennant and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology written by Geological Survey of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology in London written by Geological Survey of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: