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Map or Terrier? The Example of Christ Church, Oxford, Estate Management, 1600–1840

1998; Wiley; Volume: 23; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.0020-2754.1998.00221.x

1475-5661

David Fletcher,

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Many factors might have prompted English landowners to map their properties after the genre of estate maps emerged in the late sixteenth century. However, the continuing predominance of the traditional written survey, or terrier, remains to be accounted for. An example from the muniments of Christ Church, Oxford, a large institutional landowner, is used to explain this pattern. Circumstantial evidence from maps and written surveys is augmented by the deeper insights gained from evidence of individual perceptions and institutional policies to explain the durability of the written, as opposed to the cartographic, record of land.