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The UK countryside is under pressure. The needs of food production
compete with those of the environment, heritage and leisure, and
this pressure is increasing as ever more space is allocated to
development and for carbon capture and conservation projects. The
history of how rural space has been managed has been tackled by
both environmental and agricultural historians. For the first time,
this book brings together these two subdisciplines to build a
detailed portrait of the symbiotic relationship between land
managers and the British farmed landscape from the end of the First
World War to the twenty-first century. Taking the idyllic Yorkshire
landscape of Lower Wharfedale as the main character, this is a
story of farming through a century of change. Based on detailed
oral history interviews with local farmers who began their careers
in the early part of study period, and their grandchildren and
counterparts who are linked to the same farms in the twenty-first
century, this book explores the impact of the farming community on
the farmed environment while also highlighting the agency of the
environment in forming farming identities. This study not only
illuminates the way in which the land has been managed in the past,
but also draws out the stories of farmers' relationships with their
land over generations. Understanding how these relationships
function, in the context of their agricultural and environmental
histories, will be crucial for the successful implementation of the
landscape level change in practices and approaches that will be
essential to mitigate climate change.
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