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# The Society for Landscape Studies

Promoting the study of the landscapes

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## Posts

- [Society for Landscape Studies conference 2026 Hartington](https://www.landscapestudies.com/society-events/society-for-landscape-studies-conference-2026-hartington/) - Society for Landscape Studies 2026 conference in collaboration with Tudor Farming Interpretation Group 19th & 20th September 2026 Hartington, Buxton
- [Society for Landscape Studies AGM and December Online Conference 2025](https://www.landscapestudies.com/society-events/society-for-landscape-studies-agm-and-december-online-conference-2025/) - Society for Landscape Studies: Annual General Meeting and Online Conference - Saturday 6th December 2025
- [History on the Ground by Maurice Beresford (1957)](https://www.landscapestudies.com/articles/history-on-the-ground-by-maurice-beresford-1957/) - History on the Ground by Maurice Beresford (1957). The penultimate sentence of History on the Ground is
- [Conference: Sacred and profane: the landscapes of Kent](https://www.landscapestudies.com/news/conference-sacred-and-profane-the-landscapes-of-kent/) - The Society for Landscape Studies' 2024 Conference deemed a success. Collaboration with Centre for Kent History and Heritage based at Canterbury Christ Church University
- [Short Course at the Gloucestershire Heritage Hub](https://www.landscapestudies.com/news/short-course-at-the-gloucestershire-heritage-hub/) - Mark Forrest of VCH has brought this series of workshops, relevant to local historians, to our attention
- [Welcome to our new website](https://www.landscapestudies.com/editorials/welcome-to-new-website/) - Welcome to the new website of the Society for Landscape Studies. We hope you like it. You will find information you need about the Society and its activities
- [Conference videos now on YouTube](https://www.landscapestudies.com/news/conference-videos-now-on-youtube/) - The Society for Landscape Studies Annual Conference 2022 ‘A Tale of Two Cities: Old and New Sarum’ conference videos, held on Saturday 23rd and 24th April.
- [Focusing on the garden](https://www.landscapestudies.com/editorials/focus-on-the-garden/) - Gardens such as knot garden at Moseley Old Hall represent the most highly-manicured and controlled form of a managed nature. Based on a 17th century design.
- [Fens and Rivers in Lincolnshire](https://www.landscapestudies.com/editorials/fens-and-rivers-in-lincolnshire/) - We held our first online conference. Looking at environmental change across UK river systems. aspects of landscape evolution in the county's fens and rivers.
- [Reservoirs for canals](https://www.landscapestudies.com/abstracts/reservoirs-for-canals/) - Reservoirs change and control how water moves through the landscape. This paper explores a period in the development of reservoir technology at the turn of the 19th century
- [The landscapes of England](https://www.landscapestudies.com/articles/landscapes-of-england/) - England’s 159 National Character Areas (NCA) areas of distinct environmental character mapped at a broad scale of 1:250,000. Profiles have been produced providing a wealth of evidence about what makes each area special

## Pages

- [Landscape studies](https://www.landscapestudies.com/) - The Society for Landscape Studies provides a forum for all those interested in a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the landscape and its evolution.
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- [Events](https://www.landscapestudies.com/events/) - Our events include field meetings and a one-day conference, held in a different region of Britain each year, where the focus is on the region’s landscapes.
- [Our committee](https://www.landscapestudies.com/about/our-committee/) - Current committee members of the Society for Landscape Studies including Membership Secretary for all membership enquiries.
- [Landscape: The Richest Historical Record](https://www.landscapestudies.com/journal/richest-historical-record/) - By conveying the new richness of debate and methodology, Landscape, the Richest Historical Record summarises the study of landscape history in 2000 as successfully as Hoskins’ overview of 1955
- [Enclosed landscapes](https://www.landscapestudies.com/journal/enclosed-landscapes/) - ENCLOSED LANDSCAPE as part of the European Agricultural Hertitage, edited by Alexandra Kruse (series editor Della Hooke). Society for Landscape Studies, supplementary series 3, 2022
- [Contributors](https://www.landscapestudies.com/journal/contributors/) - Notes for contributors. Instructions for authors who wish to submit a manuscript to the journal Landscape History.
- [Society, Landscape and Environment in Upland Britain](https://www.landscapestudies.com/journal/society-landscape-environment-upland-britain/) - Society, Landscape and Environment in Upland Britain charts aspects of the history of human activity in the uplands of Britain.
- [Landscapes](https://www.landscapestudies.com/landscapes/) - Landscapes of today are the result of the interaction of humans and nature. Natural environments have been modified by the cultural activities of people.
- [News](https://www.landscapestudies.com/news/) - News on landscape studies, research and events in Britain.
- [Journal - Landscape History](https://www.landscapestudies.com/journal/) - Landscape History is the leading interdisciplinary and international journal of the Society for Landscape Studies.
- [About](https://www.landscapestudies.com/about/) - The Society for Landscape Studies is a registered charity aiming to advance public education by promoting the study of the landscape in all its aspects.
- [Membership](https://www.landscapestudies.com/membership/) - Membership for the Society for Landscape Studies: membership benefits, subscription rate, how to join, and online application form.
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- [Publications](https://www.landscapestudies.com/publications/) - Landscape Studies Journals Back issues of Landscape History Enclosed Landscapes as part of the European Heritage Landscape: the Richest Historical Record Society, Landscape and Environment in Upland Britain
- [SLS Lincolnshire trip registration](https://www.landscapestudies.com/events/sls-lincolnshire-trip-registration/) - This one day trip to Witham Valley Fen Tour in Lincolnshire only has 30 places. You can book your place today using the form below and we take payment by BACS, details will be provided after registration
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- [Online research](https://www.landscapestudies.com/online-research/) - Links to maps, aerial photographs, historic environment records, archives and other resources of use to anyone doing online research into landscape.
- [Landscape links](https://www.landscapestudies.com/landscape-links/) - Use landscape links to find other organisations with an interest in landscape, and to find more information about landscape.
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- [Lost password](https://www.landscapestudies.com/lost-password/) - Join the Society Members receive Two issues annually of Landscape History. Online access to the Landscape History archive. Online access to an additional journal (International Journal of Heritage Studies). Two issues annually of the Society’s newsletter. Discounted rates for attendance at the Society’s annual conference and field meetings. How to join You can either apply online

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- [Conference Tickets 2026](https://www.landscapestudies.com/product/conference-tickets-2026/) - The Society for Landscape Studies 2026 conference in Hartington 20th September. The conference is being brought to you in collaboration with the Tudor Farming Interpretation Group,
- [Conference Tickets 2025](https://www.landscapestudies.com/product/conference-tickets-2025/) - Society for Landscape Studies Annual Conference 2025 on Saturday 6th December at 10.00 am online. Registered for a free ticket and the link to this event
- [SLS Conference 2024 Canterbury - Non Members](https://www.landscapestudies.com/product/sls-conference-2024-canterbury-non-members/) - SLS conference 2024 at Canterbury on 28 & 29 September 2024. Sacred and Profane: the landscapes of Kent. St Paul’s church, Canterbury CT1 1NH
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- [Back issues of Landscape History](https://www.landscapestudies.com/product/copies-of-specific-back-issues/) - The following back issues of Landscape History are available: Volumes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 (Issues 1 and 2), 31 (Issues 1 and 2) and 32 (Issues 1 and 2). Back to shop page Please note that we are unable to process online orders from outside the UK. For overseas orders, please email us at treasurer@landscapestudies.com for further details.

## Portfolio

- [Scorhill Stone Circle, Dartmoor](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/scorhill-stone-circle-dartmoor/) - A Bronze Age ritual landscape on Dartmoor Dartmoor, with its rocky tors and bogs, appears to be a ‘natural’ landscape but it has a wealth of archaeological evidence of prehistoric use by humans. In particular, there are several Bronze Age ritual monuments. Scorhill stone circle is situated on Scorhill Down in the open moorland landscape
- [Stourhead, Wiltshire](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/stourhead/) - Eighteenth century landscape garden Created by the banker Henry Hoare in the mid-1700s, the gardens are set in the grounds of a house built in the Palladian style. Covering over 1000 hectares, the gardens are centred on a lake, formed by damming the headwaters of the river Stour. A team of 50 gardeners planted a
- [Old St Albans court](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/old-st-albans-court/) - Grade I listed building in Nonington, Kent, England, United Kingdom
- [The Senni Valley, Brecon Beacons](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/the-senni-valley-brecon-beacons/) - The Senni Valley, Brecon Beacons – an ‘ancient’ landscape The Senni Valley is located in the heart of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The distant photograph shows the difference in the landscape between the open moorland on the higher hills, the wooded steeper slopes and the smaller, sheltered fields in the valley bottom. Originally formed
- [Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/clifton-suspension-bridge/) - Brunel’s masterpiece spanning the Avon Gorge The Clifton Suspension Bridge The magnificent Clifton Suspension Bridge spans the Avon Gorge and the River Avon. The bridge links Clifton in Briston with Leigh Woods in North Somerset. The bridge opened in 1864. Further information Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust View on map
- [Clapper bridges](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/clapper-bridges-2/) - Ancient stone bridges Clapper bridges consist of one or more large slabs of rock resting on the banks of streams or on stone piers in rivers. Although they do exist in other upland regions of the UK, they are most commonly found on Dartmoor and Exmoor in the south-west of England. The steep valleys and
- [Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde, Colorado](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/mesa-verde/) - Climate change and settlement abandonment Mesa Verde is a large sandstone plateau with deeply incised canyons. The buildings in the Cliff Palace date from around 1190 A.D. when the Ancestral Puebloans moved down from the plateau. Why they chose this spot in the landscape is not clear; it is not the most easily defensible site,
- [Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumerland](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/dunstanburgh-castle-in-northumerland/) - Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumerland Medieval castles were once thought of as simply military structures, but today we also consider their role as high-status residences, symbols of power, and administrative centres that influenced urban development. Dunstanburgh Castle in Northumberland, was built in the 14th century on the site of an Iron Age promontory fort. Early interpretations
- [Blaenavon Ironworks, South Wales](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/blaenavon/) - A landscape of the Industrial Revolution The ironworks at Blaenavon were built in the first half of the nineteenth century and were, at the time, the largest in the world. The photographs show what remains of the complex itself, with stone-built blast furnaces and a few of the associated iron-workers cottagers. This is just a
- [The Storr, Isle of Skye](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/the-storr/) - A spectacular geological landscape The Storr lies at the southern end of the longest continuous area of landslips in Britain. The 23km-long eastern escarpment of the Trotternish ridge dominates the landscape of northern Skye. Basalt from 55-million-year-old lava flows sits on top of older, softer Jurassic sedimentary rocks that are unable to support the weight
- [Beechey Island, Nunavut](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/beechey-island/) - A landscape of Arctic exploration Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 naval expedition in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. The expedition disappeared, but five years after its departure the graves of three of the crew were discovered on Beechey Island. The main photograph shows the graves (the fourth is from a later expedition), on a
- [Dutton-Viaduct](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/dutton-viaduct/) - Dutton-Viaduct The construction of railways in the nineteenth century had a lasting impact on the landscape. George Stephenson, ‘Father of the Railways’ was one of the engineers on the Grand Junction Railway, linking Birmingham to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. Crossing the River Weaver meant constructing this 500-yard-long, 20-arch viaduct that took 700 men two
- [Holloways](https://www.landscapestudies.com/collection/holloways/) - Routeways cut into the landscape Holloways, or sunken lanes, are created by the passage of people and their carts, aided by the erosive power of rainwater as it washes down the ruts. They are most common and prominent on slopes in areas of soft rock. Holloways are a very common feature on the Hamstone of South Somerset,

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