Martin Mere : Lancashire's lost lake / W.G. Hale and Audrey Coney ; with contributions from Bill Pick and Alan Whittaker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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A drive through the area of Lancashire inland from the seaside resort of Southport takes you through miles of fertile agricultural land dotted with farms and smallholdings. Road signs pointing to such places as?Mereside?,?Mere Brow? and?Mere Sands Wood? suggest the origin of these peaty soils, because in the seventeenth century this was the site of the largest lake in England. Martin Mere began as a depression in the glacial drift which filled with water as the ice from the last Ice Age retreated, and over its long history the land and the lake have contested the area as water levels have r.

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; 1: Introduction; 2: Out of the Ice; 3: The Changing Mere; 4: Mapping the Mere; 5: Archaeology, Place-Names and Settlement, and Traditions of the Mere; 6: Managing the Fen; 7: Draining the Mere; 8: The Natural History of the Mere; 9: Rural Life, c. 1840-1950; 10: Gamekeeping and the Shoot; 11: Towards Today; 12: The Once and Future Mere; Bibliography; Index.

English.

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