Content derived from research undertaken as part of the Victoria County History project
The farming year on Exmoor required seasonal movement of animals to make maximum use of grass growth during the summer months and to provide the li
There are many reasons why farmsteads become abandoned.
Following disafforestation, manors gained control of their own commons yet, were not always successful in maintaining it. Disputes were taken to th
In much of England in the Middle Ages, routine business relating to local communities was conducted at the appropriate manorial court, while seriou
After the Conquest, there seems to have been much more activity as the parish structure emerged on Exmoor.
Evidence for past environments is contained within many buried archaeological deposits, but upland peat bogs and valley mires are e
Blue Gate mine, Exmoor, with engine pumping during an attempt to reopen the mines just before the First World War
