The origins of water meadows in England
In: Agricultural history review, Jg. 51 (2003), S. 155-162
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It is usually assumed that the floating or artificial irrigation of water meadows was an innovation of the early modern period. Indeed, many authorities still attribute the technique to the late sixteenth-century improver Rowland Vaughan. There is however, good evidence that irrigation was already understood and practised on at least a limited scale by the start of the sixteenth century. It is probable that early irrigation systems normally took the form of catchworks: the key development of the post-demieval centuries was the creation of more sophisticated bedwork systems, which allowed the widespread adoption of floating on the chalklands of southern England.
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The origins of water meadows in England
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | COOK, Hadrian ; STEARNE, Kathy ; WILLIAMSON, Tom |
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Zeitschrift: | Agricultural history review, Jg. 51 (2003), S. 155-162 |
Veröffentlichung: | Exeter: British Agricultural History Society, 2003 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | print; 8; 2 |
ISSN: | 0002-1490 (print) |
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