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The landscape of Sheinton

7. Conclusion

Today in Sheinton what had once been a landscape of strips is now a landscape of hedged fields.

A photograph of open fields, with hills in the background

Sheinton's open fields today.
[Reproduced with kind permission of T.G.Hill]

This study of manorial maps and surveys, glebe terriers, tithe maps and apportionments, deeds and parish registers has shown how the data from a variety of historical sources has been put together to create a picture of the changes in the farming system of Sheinton between the mid 18th and 19th centuries.

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