Professor Harold Fox has died in Leicester shortly after retiring from the
Centre for English Local History. He was a historical geographer and
landscape historian by training, whose work on medieval society and
landscapes (both nationally and on his native Devon) were widely appreciated
by archaeologists. He is perhaps best known for his early work on open-field
systems but wrote on many topics. His recent book on the Devon fishing and
fishing settlements in the Middle Ages is already regarded as a classic
work.
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