Cross-posted from the H-Environment list
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John A W Lock
http://www.youtube.com/deerisible
New podcast episode: Environmental history of a hydrological
landscape: the soughs of Derbyshire
by Jan Oosthoek
A new episode of the Exploring Environmental History Podcast
examines the environmental history of the Derbyshire Soughs with Carry
van Lieshout, a historical geographer at the University of Nottingham.
She works on a research project that investigates the environmental and
cultural history of the Derbyshire soughs in order to inform
understandings of this largely forgotten cultural landscape and to
develop management and conservation strategies for underground
heritage.
Soughs are underground draining channels created to prevent the
flooding of lead mines in the Derbyshire Peak District. The
construction of soughs in the 18th and 19th centuries changed the
hydrological landscape of the Peak District reducing the flow of
watercourses powering the mills of the early Industrial Revolution.
This led to legal conflicts between sough builders and others who
relied on the availability of water. Petitions were submitted to the
courts and many of these court cases rumbled on for decades.
During the 20th century the soughs were largely forgotten but recently
the soughs have been rediscovered for their industrial heritage on the
one hand, and their detrimental effect on the hydrology of the
landscape, pitting heritage values versus ecological restoration,
creating a new battle ground of interests.
Listen to this episode: http://www.eh-resources.org/podcast/podcast.html#64
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