Main entry:

Robinson, John Martin.

Title & Author:

Felling the ancient oaks : how England lost its great country estates / John Martin Robinson.

Publication:

London : Aurum Press, 2011.

Description:

207 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Series:

Aurum history

Notes:
"Aurum history."
Includes index.
Beaudesert, Staffordshire -- Biddlestone, Northumberland -- Cassiobury, Hertfordshire -- Chicksands, Bedfordshire -- Costessey, Norfolk -- The Deepdene, Surrey -- Donington Park, Leicestershire -- Fornham, Suffolk -- Glossop Dale, Derbyshire -- Haggerston Castle, Northumberland -- Highhead Castle, Ivegill, Cumberland -- Hinton St. George, Somerset -- Lathom, Lancashire -- Normanton Park, Rutland -- Nuttall Temple, Nottinghamshire -- Panshanger, Hertsfordshire -- Shillinglee Park, Sussex -- Thirkeby Hall, North Riding of Yorkshire -- Trentham, Staffordshire -- Winestead, East Riding of Yorkshire -- Witley Court, Worcestershire.

Summary:

Chronicles twenty of England's most sadly lost estates, telling the history of the aristocratic dynasty that founded them, explaining the circumstances that led to their often fabulously prosperous peak, and then tracing the various, and occasionally outlandish, reasons for their decline and demolition. 150 photographs depict all that was lost: classical landscapes and architectural masterpieces that have gone forever, all too often to be replaced by a military base, a soulless resevoir, or the endless sprawl of light industry and suburbia. By the 1950s the National Trust was starting to be successful in saving and conserving great country estates for posterity, but it was already too late for more than a thousand country houses and their estates that had disappeared since the war. The ancient woodlands were chopped down for their lucrative timber, the house was demolished, the deer park, the cricket ground, and home farm often ending up under concrete for a new power station, housing estate or airport, and at best surviving as green space in the form of blanket pine forestry or a golf course.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781845136703
1845136705

Subject:

Manors England History.
Country homes England.
Architecture, Domestic England.
Lost architecture England.
Manoirs Angleterre Histoire.
Maisons de campagne Angleterre.
Monuments disparus Angleterre.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture, Domestic
Country homes
Lost architecture
Manors
England

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Aurum history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290293
Call No.: BIB 233266
Status: Available