England's Past for Everyone: Historic Environment Research
Matthew Bristow, 2012. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000416. How to cite using this DOI
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Exmoor, Somerset and Devon
The Exmoor project focused on 11 upland parishes in the area adjacent and to the south of the former royal forest of Exmoor. These parishes, Exmoor, Exford, Withypool, Hawkridge, Winsford, Dulverton, Brushford, West Ansty, East Ansty, Molland and Twitchen, formed a coherent study area, nominally called 'Southern Exmoor', which represented a unique research venture for the VCH as it crossed the county boundary between Somerset and Devon and focused on the area's unifying topography rather than on its administrative divisions.
The published paperback, Exmoor: the making of an English Upland, represented the result of a multi-disciplinary study in which the rigorously researched topographical history written to VCH guidelines by Robert Dunning and his successor as County Editor, Mary Siraut, was combined with field archaeology, standing buildings analysis, oral history testimony and landscape recording.
Much of this additional work was undertaken by a dedicated volunteer group, whose work surveying 19th century farmsteads identified the most significant post-enclosure farmsteads, namely Stone, Ashway, Lyshwell and Stetfold Rocks, which John Thorp and Jo Cox of Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants produced full interpretive surveys of. Following the work by Keystone, English Heritage artists Allan Adams and Nigel Fradgley produced reconstruction drawings of Stone, Ashway and Lyshwell, based on the Keystone survey work.
Report files:
| Four Exmoor Farms by John Thorp and Jo Cox, Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants 2007, (report K727) | 330 Kb |
Image files:
Plans and elevations of the four farms described in the report above.
| Ashway_First_floor_flow | 34 Kb | |
| Ashway_First_floor_plan | 40 Kb | |
| Ashway_Ground_floor_flow | 42 Kb | |
| Ashway_Ground_floor_plan | 53 Kb | |
| Ashway_south_elevation | 39 Kb | |
| Ashway_west_elevation | 42 Kb | |
| Lyshwell_drbarn | 38 Kb | |
| Lyshwell_drflow | 40 Kb | |
| Lyshwell_drplan_ground | 49 Kb | |
| Lyshwell_drshippon | 40 Kb | |
| Stefold_drelevation_cross_barns | 35 Kb | |
| Stefold_drelevation_north | 42 Kb | |
| Stetfold_drflow_first_1 | 28 Kb | |
| Stetfold_drflow_first_2 | 30 Kb | |
| Stetfold_drflow_ground_1 | 35 Kb | |
| Stetfold_drflow_ground_2 | 37 Kb | |
| Stetfold_drplan_first | 106 Kb | |
| Stetfold_drplan_ground | 84 Kb | |
| Stetfold_drplan_lambshed | 30 Kb | |
| Stone_dr_fstfloor_flow | 32 Kb | |
| Stone_dr_gfloor_flow | 40 Kb | |
| Stone_eastelev | 44 Kb | |
| Stone_fstfloor | 36 Kb | |
| Stone_gfloor | 46 Kb | |
| Stone_northelev | 39 Kb |
Publications
EXMOOR: THE MAKING OF AN ENGLISH UPLAND by Mary Siraut. Phillimore & Co. Ltd. ISBN 978-1-86077-597-0
