I’ve written several times since I started this blog, about my little project I call “Locality”. What it does is bring various hobbies and interests of mine together to be be applied to a study of the local area, hence Locality.
If there is one thing that Locality is about it is landscapes, not just how an area looks, but what goes on there and if not equally as important, in some cases definitely more so, what went on in the past.
There some locations where a feature may not be understood. A reasonable example might be shown in the header picture. The feature is a ha-ha. The National Trust describes it as a a type of sunken fence, designed to give the viewer, usually from a grand house, a continuous view whilst providing a boundary for livestock.
The thing is if I want to get full benefit out of Locality, I should put a little bit of effort in to learning how to read a landscape, to recognise less obvious features, that can give us a clue as to how the land was used.
I suspect to that comprehensively would require a lot of effort, I guess a book will teach me a bit, but then, I would need to go out and put it into practice. A lovely idea, but I do need the time to do that.
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