Just to add something to Phil's posting, it would be really helpful if all
the SMRs/HERs that have undertaken Historic Landscape Characterisation
projects could send a list of their classification terms to either myself or
Phil (off list please) so that we can ensure that the terms already used are
incorporated.
Thanks
Martin
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From: Carlisle, Philip [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 25 March 2003 10:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Stafford Shoe Manufacturing Quarter
Dear all
Talk about synchronicity. On Friday a meeting with Worcestershire SMR took
place here at the NMR. They wanted to discuss their plans for transition
from SMR to HER and part of this relates to landscape characterization. As a
result they have asked about the possibility of developing a thesaurus
relating to HLCs and landscape description.
I began working on this yesterday but as I was only on digest, and after my
last outing on SMRFORUM, I didn't join in the discussion about Quarters.
I will carry on working on it over the next few days with the hope of
posting a pdf to the list for constructive comments and additional
terminology suggestions.
It's all very rough at the mo but already includes term such as:
Coppice, Open Field System, Suburb, Nucleated Settlement, Deer Park,
Industrial Quarter, Commercial Quarter, Wold, Plantation, Civil Parish,
Wapentake, Manorial Estate and Bishopric.
Just some of the terms which will hopefully enable users to accurately
describe landscape elements.
As ever the usual caveats apply with regards to the thesaurus, namely:
a)it is only a draft
b) it is not English Heritage trying to force people ot do things the way
they want
and
c) it is incomplete
Hope this is of interest
Phil
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From: Tees Archaeology [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 March 2003 14:19
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Stafford Shoe Manufacturing Quarter
Your query has prompted me to consider putting the Ironmasters District in
Middlesbrough on the SMR as an entity as well as its separate sites. The
existing term 'INDUSTRIAL ESTATE' would suit our purposes as the district
was an area of land specifically divided in to plots for manufacturing or
commercial concerns with shared infrastructure.
Peter, Tees Archaeology
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:33 PM
Subject: Stafford Shoe Manufacturing Quarter
> In the mid 19th century Staffords Boot and Shoe industry changed from a
> small scale affair with lots of village outworkers to a mechanized factory
> oriented national business apparently surpassed in scale only by
> Northampton. The many manufacturers seemed to focus their factory building
> activities on a tightly defined area to the north of the town. The
> Victorian
> district that grew from this "green field development" activity has a very
> distinctive character and was once a complicated mixture of shoe factories
> and houses and related businesses, such as carton manufacturers sawmills
> and
> timber yards, as well as all the usual domestic stuff like corner shops,
> pubs etc. Many of the factories were built amongst the houses some with
> semi-domestic facades, one even bucked the industrial trend of small paned
> windows by using conventional domestic sashes. Some of the terraces have
> strategically placed carriage entrances to allow access to small "garden"
> workshop businessess such as sawmills for the manufacture of wooden heels.
> The SMR site type thesaurus has names for many of these individual
elements
> but I can't find a suitable term to describe the district as a distinctive
> whole. It isn't a model village which implies the development input of a
> single person or company nor could anyone realistically describe the area
> as
> being the product of a utopian vision. On the other hand it isn't just any
> group of terraced streets which consists wholly of housing with the
> occasional shop. For our Historic Environment Record the area needs to be
> represented both as individual sites and as a distinctive district. Does
> anyone know of a suitable term that I may have overlooked, or if not are
> there any ideas out there for a term and it's place in the thesaurus
> heirarchy - Industrial or settlement?
> thanks - Andrew Kirkham
> Information Systems Manager(Historic Environment)
> Staffordshire County Council
> Development Services Department
> Environmental Planning Unit
> [log in to unmask]
>
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