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.
See new and forthcoming titles below or browse our full catalogue here.
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Sutton Hoo and its Landscape [Paperback]
Tom Williamson (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781905119257
Published by : Windgather Press
The location of the Anglo-Saxon burial ground at Sutton Hoo, on a ridge overlooking the estuary of the river Deben, has always appeared strange and challenging. This is not so much because the site is today an isolated and lonely one, but rathe... .... Learn More -
The Dartmoor Reaves: Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions, Second Edition [Paperback]
Andrew Fleming (Author)
£25.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119158
Published by : Windgather Press
First published in 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves is a classic story of archaeological fieldwork and discovery, and a winner of the Archaeological Book Award. This major new edition adds both colour illustrations and two substantial new chapters to... .... Learn More -
Hedgerow History: Ecology, History and Landscape Character [Paperback]
Gerry Barnes (Author); Tom Williamson (Author)
£27.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119042
Published by : Windgather Press
Oxbow says: For many years hedges have been the most common field boundary in rural Britain, providing a stock-proof barrier, a field boundary and a haven for wildlife. Despite this, they are rarely studied in any detail in landscape archaeolog... .... Learn More -
Post-Medieval Landscapes [Paperback]
P. S. Barnwell (Editor); Marilyn Palmer (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9781905119196
Published by : Windgather Press
'The formation of the landscape archaeological record is primarily a product of the post-medieval period' (Tom Williamson). This book reflects some of the most recent work in landscape studies of the period since 1500. It builds upon ideas and... .... Learn More -
Clarendon: Landscape of Kings [Hardback]
Thomas Beaumont James (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781905119103
Published by : Windgather Press
Extensively illustrated with colour and black and white images, this book tells Clarendon's story, from the Neolithic through to the present day. It focuses in particular on the palace and deer park's medieval heyday. Soon after the Norman conques... .... Learn More -
Clarendon: Landscape of Kings [Paperback]
Thomas Beaumont James (Author); Christopher Gerrard (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9781905119110
Published by : Windgather Press
Extensively illustrated with colour and black and white images, this book tells Clarendon's story, from the Neolithic through to the present day. It focuses in particular on the palace and deer park's medieval heyday. Soon after the Norman conques... .... Learn More -
Water Meadows: History, Ecology and Conservation [Paperback]
Hadrian Cook (Editor); Tom Williamson (Editor)
£26.00ISBN: 9781905119127
Published by : Windgather Press
This book brings to public attention some of the most evocative and threatened features of the landscape of southern England. Water meadows work with nature to improve agricultural productivity, whilst providing rich habitats for wildlife such a... .... Learn More -
William Morris's Kelmscott: Landscape and History [Paperback]
Tom Hassall (Author); Peter Salway (Author); Alan Crossley (Editor)
£24.95ISBN: 9781905119141
Published by : Windgather Press
Kelmscott Manor is forever linked with the name of William Morris, pioneer conservationist and utopian socialist, designer and father of the Arts and Crafts tradition. The manor played a crucial role in shaping his thought: at the climactic moment... .... Learn More -
Medieval Devon and Cornwall: Shaping an Ancient Countryside [Paperback]
Sam Turner (Editor)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119073
Published by : Windgather Press
The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the tinworks and s... .... Learn More -
Castles in Context: Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500 [Paperback]
Robert Liddiard (Author)
£32.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9780954557522
Published by : Windgather Press
Castle studies have been transformed in recent years with a movement away from the traditional interpretation of castles as static military structures towards a wider view of castles as aesthetic symbols of power, with a more complicated relati... .... Learn More
