Atlas of Rural Settlement in England

Andrew Lowerre, Eddie Lyons, Brian K Roberts, Stuart Wrathmell, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5284/1031493. How to cite using this DOI

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Andrew Lowerre, Eddie Lyons, Brian K Roberts, Stuart Wrathmell (2015) Atlas of Rural Settlement in England [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1031493

Introduction

Atlas of Rural Settlement in England A map of GIS data showing Roberts and Wrathmell's nucleated settlements and settlement provinces, sub-provinces and local regions overlaid on terrain zones. © Historic England

The Atlas of Rural Settlement in England GIS comprises the results of two projects based on Brian K Roberts and Stuart Wrathmell’s An Atlas of Rural Settlement in England (2000).

The aim of the data conversion project was to enable the key maps of rural settlement and terrain presented in the printed Atlas to be used more effectively than before in research on landscape and settlement in England as well as in the management of the historic environment. The maps printed in the Atlas were produced digitally but were created as vector graphics files and were therefore not useable in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Given the now-widespread use of GIS software in the management and study of the historic environment, as well as the availability of software such as Google Earth, that lacuna significantly restricted the use and value of the Atlas’s maps. Presenting Roberts and Wrathmell’s materials in an interactive, spatially-aware digital format, will enable a variety of users to examine, query and re-interpret Roberts and Wrathmell’s results.

The aims of the environmental analysis project were to investigate the inter-relationships of environmental factors and historic settlement organisation, and how they are expressed as regional and local variations, and to develop a new, national-scale characterisation of historic settlement organisation as it relates to the physical environment. The project combined the GIS data for historic settlement nucleation and dispersion with a range of data on environmental variables (topography, precipitation, temperature and soils) in order to explore which environmental variables (if any) appear to have had the most significant influence on regional variation in historic settlement organisation.


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