Humanities & Science
History: The Rural Wessex Landscape since 1500
Course details
Course code
Q00017153Course date
Start: 07/11/24
End: 07/11/24
Number of classes
1 sessionsBranch
Winchester BranchTutor
Hadrian CookFee range
Free to £21.00
How you'll learn
Venue
St Lawrence Parish Rooms (Winchester)Colebrook Street
Winchester
SO23 9LH
Level of study
Availability
You can enrol online for this course
Course overview
The rural Wessex landscape since 1500 outlines the changes to the landscape of our region over the past 500 years, from the Dissolution of the Monasteries through the ‘Agricultural Revolution’, to the rise of modern agriculture and forestry. While the need to maintain food supply is paramount, the course will outline the impacts on both human society and on the loss of semi-natural habitats such as heathland, ancient woodland, and chalk grassland. There will be a case study of the New Forest that will explore the origins, management and habitats that are to be explored through the New Forest landscape.
Course description
The region known as Wessex is remarkable for its range of landscape types, and for its valued landscapes and semi-natural habitats. This course integrates the main components of landscape history, particularly the geology, soils, hydrology, and ecology and how these are utilised and impacted by human society, including climate change. Since 1500, history demonstrates changes from a medieval economy, dominated by the church and aristocracy, to one that was largely ‘privatised; through enclosure; while the New Forest became, in effect, state land.
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