Book Summary

Trees & Woodland in the British Landscape

The complete history of Britain's trees, woods & hedgerows.

Oliver Rackham

The definitive history book for English trees & woodland. Oliver Rackham describes the complete history and the changing character of our trees & woodlands from the prehistoric beginnings, through to the present time. He includes sections for wood & place names, hedgerows, the Enclosure Acts, parks, farms and much more. 

The book is divided into the following chapters:

• The constant spring: how woods and trees work.
• Wildwood and prehistoric beginnings.
• From Claudius to Hugo de Northwold.
• Classical woodland management: the middle ages and after.
• The woods in decline:post-medieval changes.
• What woods now mean: a guide to field-work.
• Trees on commons: the wood pasture tradition.
• Parks: private wood-pasture.
• Wooded forests: the kings wood-pasture.
• Trees on the farm: hedges and elsewhere.
• Conservation and the future.

Trees & Woodland in the British Landscape by Oliver Rackham. First published 1976. Last revision 1995. 236 pages. 24 pages, black & white photographs, figures, maps. Published by Weidenfield & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-81623-3

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