Sudbury Common Rights
Sudbury Commons Registration
See also Sudbury Common Rights
Ledene a Saxon Estate
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Highleadon Enclosures
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The History of a Rural Hamlet
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Leckhampton Hill
See also Leckhampton Hill Quarries Sandy Lane
The English Countryside
The sublime tranquility of the English countryside in its range of differing landscapes has been the inspiration of many poets and artists. The unique pastoral scenery reproduced by Gainsborough and Constable has been emulated in the ‘English Landscape Park’ by designers such as William Kent and Charles Bridgeman leading to the works of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. English landscapes in all their rural forms have been the envy of the world. As a schoolboy in Hampshire I developed an early passion…
Maps of Highleadon
Highleadon, Gloucestershire
Forest of Dean Please click here for the History of a Rural Hamlet Please click here for Highleadon Enclosures Please click here for Ledene a Saxon Estate Please click for information on Highleadon Maps
Borough of Sudbury
Sudbury is a small ‘market town’ on the southern edge of Suffolk where the river Stour borders the county of Essex. It has many attractive historic features and ancient wood-framed buildings. Founded on a fortified settlement, it was initially named Suthburgh or ‘Sudby’ for its being the southern borough of Daneland East Anglia. Sudbury was an Anglo-Danish manorial town made forfeit to the Crown following the Norman Conquest. It came into the hands of the De Clare’s, the seigniorial lords…