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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Medieval Bridges of Southern England: 100 Bridges, 1000 Years [Hardback]
Marshall G. Hall(Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427138
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Throughout history rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them. I... .... Learn More -
Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford: The Case of Hanwell Castle [Paperback]
Stephen Wass(Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427169
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Based on a decade of archaeological investigation and historical research, this book tells the story of the Copes of Hanwell Castle in north Oxfordshire and the creation of a garden with links to the development of scientific thinking in Oxford in... .... Learn More -
English Orchards: A Landscape History [Paperback]
Gerry Barnes(Author); Tom Williamson(Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427190
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Old orchards have an irresistible appeal. Their ancient trees and obscure fruit varieties seem to provide a direct link with the lost rural world of our ancestors, a time when the pace of life was slower and people had a strong and intimate connec... .... Learn More -
Surveying the Domesday Book [Paperback]
Simon Keith(Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427107
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This is an analysis of the Domesday Book from the perspective of a surveyor and valuer. Most of the logistical problems encountered by the Domesday surveyors are universal.
The main aim of this work is to calculate a timetable for the cre... .... Learn More -
Thomas White (c. 1736–1811): Redesigning the northern British landscape [Paperback]
Deborah Turnbull(Author); Louise Wickham(Author)
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ISBN: 9781914427008
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This volume aims to restore the reputation of Thomas White, who in his time was as well respected as his fellow landscape designers Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and Humphry Repton. By the end of his career, he had produced designs for at least 32 s... .... Learn More -
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney [Paperback]
Colin Richards(Editor); Richard Jones(Editor)
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ISBN: 9781911188872
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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 circles, standing s... .... Learn More -
Norfolk Gardens and Designed Landscapes [Paperback]
Patsy Dallas(Author); Tom Williamson(Author); Roger Last(Author)
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ISBN: 9781911188308
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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 landscape architectu... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Yew: A History of Taxus baccata [Paperback]
Robert Bevan-Jones(Author)
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ISBN: 9781785700781
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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 the distant past.... .... Learn More -
Offa's Dyke: Landscape & Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain [Paperback]
Keith Ray(Author); Ian Bapty(Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119356
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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 century of study, we st... .... 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)
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ISBN: 9781909686892
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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 circles, standing s... .... Learn More
