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The Lanhydrock Land Atlas - A Complete Reproduction of the 17th Century Cornish Estate Maps (Hardcover)
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The Lanhydrock Land Atlas - A Complete Reproduction of the 17th Century Cornish Estate Maps (Hardcover)
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Manuscript estate maps provide an invaluable link to past physical
landscapes and previous human existence. The Lanhydrock Atlas is no
exception. Each of its 258 highly-decorated maps opens a door into
the lost world of life in the seventeenth century, and brings to
life not only the physical lie of the land but the stories of the
people and their lives. These documents record the widely-scattered
Cornish landholdings of a single gentry family - the Robartes of
Lanhydrock - during the 1690s, the period when the family's wealth
and possessions were at their most extensive. Though unsigned,
there is sufficient stylistic and circumstantial evidence to
support the confident attribution of the maps to Joel Gascoyne, one
of the foremost cartographers of the time. In addition to the
painstaking listing of the field names, acreages and agrarian uses
of Robartes land from St Just in the far west of the county to The
Lizard in the south and as far east as the River Tamar separating
Cornwall from Devon, the maps also feature topographical details of
the Cornish landscape such as buildings, coastlines, roads and
rivers which have become an important resource for historians. In
this book the National Trust makes available for the first time the
complete set of maps which comprise the Lanhydrock Atlas. The
superb quality of the reproductions is complemented by a detailed
commentary on the individual maps by Dr Oliver J. Padel, and by
essays from Paul Holden on the history of the Robartes family and
from Peter Herring on the interpretation of the Cornish landscape
in the Atlas. The publication has been made possible by generous
grants from the Piet Mendels Foundation and from Cornwall County
Council.
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