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Bridgwater: Personality Place and the Built Environment - From its Anglo-Saxon origins to the 17th century (Paperback)
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Bridgwater: Personality Place and the Built Environment - From its Anglo-Saxon origins to the 17th century (Paperback)
Series: British Archaeological Reports British Series
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'Bridgwater: Personality, Place and the Built Environment' traces
the history and development of the town of Bridgwater as a physical
entity from its origins to 1700. This includes not only the
physical layout of the town as a whole, but also the plan and
structure of its individual plots and buildings. These have been
reconstructed through the hundreds of leases from the medieval
period and sixteenth and seventeenth centuries preserved in the
town's archives. Although the area around Bridgwater was settled in
prehistory and Roman times, Bridgwater itself first appeared in the
early eleventh century. In contrast to previous histories of the
town, the book shows that rather than being the village depicted in
the Domesday survey, Bridgwater was founded as a bridgehead burh by
its Anglo-Saxon lord, Maerleswein. It was later promoted to
Anglo-Norman borough c. 1200 by the Devon magnate, William de
Brewer, who added the castle and parks as part of a planned
aristocratic landscape. The book places the settlement and
development of the town within the context of the wider changes in
the landscape of Somerset, such as the colonisation and drainage of
the Levels, the expansion of road and river communications and the
urbanisation of Europe from the tenth century onwards. It also
examines the effect of the late medieval urban crisis and the
Reformation on the physical structure of the town.
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