Much of the text presented in slides 3-8 was provided by Richard Jones, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester. It is an extract from his book:

Jones, RLC. In press. The Medieval Natural World. Seminar Studies in History, Longman.

Thanks go to Jonty Redgate and the residents of Upton for allowing extracts of the village newsletter to be reproduced here.

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