Windgather Press Imprint
Windgather Press specialises in publishing accessible and attractive books on landscape history, landscape archaeology, and the history of Britain’s countryside and further afield, including garden history. The publications are designed not only for those professionally engaged in the subject, but also those with a serious amateur interest in landscape research.
The name comes from Windgather Rocks, a prominent gritstone edge on the Cheshire/Derbyshire Border, close to where the press was originally founded in Bollington. Well-known amongst climbers and walkers, the edge overlooks a landscape of seventeenth and eighteen century field-walls and scattered farms typical of the western Pennine edge.
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Norfolk Gardens and Designed Landscapes [Paperback]
Patsy Dallas(Author); Tom Williamson(Author); Roger Last(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781911188308
Published by : Windgather Press
This beautifully produced volume, the outcome of many decades of research, is a celebration of Norfolk’s particularly rich heritage of parks and gardens. It provides a detailed exploration of the history of gardening and lan... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Yew: A History of Taxus baccata [Paperback]
Robert Bevan-Jones(Author)
Regular Price: $49.95
Special Price: $25.98
ISBN: 9781785700781
Published by : Windgather Press
The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of ... .... Learn More -
Offa's Dyke: Landscape & Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain [Paperback]
Keith Ray(Author); Ian Bapty(Author)
$46.00ISBN: 9781905119356
Published by : Windgather Press
The massive ancient linear earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a centur... .... Learn More -
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney: Investigations in the Bay of Firth, Mainland, Orkney (1994–2014) [Hardback]
Colin Richards(Editor); Richard Jones(Editor)
$59.95ISBN: 9781909686892
Published by : Windgather Press
Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone ci... .... Learn More -
Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire: Society and landscape in the eighteenth century [Paperback]
Andrew Macnair(Author); Anne Rowe(Author); Tom Williamson(Author)
Regular Price: $59.95
Special Price: $19.98
ISBN: 9781909686731
Published by : Windgather Press
This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.
For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the l... .... Learn More -
Norfolk Landscapes: A colourful journey through the Broads, Brecks, Staithes and Churches of Norfolk [Hardback]
Doug Kennedy(Author)
$29.99ISBN: 9781909686816
Published by : Windgather Press
Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles. With the North Sea and The Wash to the east and north it is relatively close to the Netherlands, but Norwich is only a couple of hours by train from Lon... .... Learn More -
Trees in Towns and Cities: A History of British Urban Arboriculture [Paperback]
Mark Johnston(Author)
Regular Price: $65.00
Special Price: $29.98
ISBN: 9781909686625
Published by : Windgather Press
This is the first book on the history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them. It is a highly readable and authoritative account of the trees in our urban landscapes from the... .... Learn More -
Between the Wind and the Water: World Heritage Orkney [Paperback]
Caroline Wickham-Jones(Author)
$39.95ISBN: 9781909686502
Published by : Windgather Press
The archaeological sites of Orkney give us an unparalleled glimpse into prehistory. Inscribed as the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' World Heritage Site in 1999, four great monuments - the village of Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, t... .... Learn More -
Deer and People [Paperback]
Karis Baker(Editor); Ruth Carden(Editor); Richard Madgwick(Editor)
Regular Price: $80.00
Special Price: $19.98
ISBN: 9781909686540
Published by : Windgather Press
Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport. Their social and economic importance has seen some species transported across cont... .... Learn More -
An Author and a Gardener: The Gardens and Friendship of Edith Wharton and Lawrence Johnston [Hardback]
Allan R. Ruff(Author)
Regular Price: $55.00
Special Price: $19.98
ISBN: 9781909686465
Published by : Windgather Press
In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton’s intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France. Among that small group of people was her friend for many years, Lawrence ‘Johnnie’ Jo... .... Learn More
