by Hugh Thomson
and women priests 227
Churchill, Winston 116
Clare, John 211
Clark, Kenneth 190
class distinctions 234–5
Claudius, Emperor 206
Cleeve 126
Cobbett, William 58–60, 121
coca tea 273–4
Coetzee, J M 250
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 210–11
Commentari de Bello Gallico (Caesar) 216
Connolly, Cyril 233
Constable, John 186
Cool, Kenton 148
Coombe 73
Coombe Hill 208, 210
Cope, Julian 246
Corn Laws 60
Corton Hill 42
Council of British Archaeology 246
Cox, Norman, gamekeeper 161–4, 182
Cranbourne Chase 53, 54
Cromwell, Oliver 160, 192–3
Crooked Billet and gastro-pubs 181–2
Crowmarsh 136
Cymbeline 206
Cymbeline (Shakespeare) 206–7
Cymbeline’s Castle 206, 207
Cynric 101
Dada 250
Dancing in the Street: a Rock And Roll History 251
Danegeld 238
Danelaw 237
Danny, traveller 178–80
Dartmoor 201
de la Pole family 173–5
see also Alice, Duchess of Suffolk
de la Pole, John, Duke of Suffolk 174–5
de la Pole, William 174–5
Deakin, Roger 146, 184
deer, skinning 4–5
Defoe, Daniel 17, 36, 242, 262
Didcot Power Station 148, 201
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (David Montgomery) 222
Domesday Book 202, 203
Dorchester (Dorset):
centre of 33,
monuments around 26
Poundbury 33–5
Dorchester-on-Thames (Oxfordshire) 118, 147
Jerome K Jerome’s description of 153
Dorset 12–13
Defoe’s description of 36
diminishing importance of 28
Dorset Ridgeway 24, 26
Dorsetshire Gap 35, 37
Douglas, Lord Alfred 125
Drabble, Margaret 30, 31
Dragon Order and washing-up rota 98–9, 100
Druids 62, 63
and ravens 102–3
and Seahenge 278–9, 280
Dufy, Raoul 186
Durrington Walls 67, 72
Dyer, James 215, 216
Dyke Hills 118, 152–3
Earth Trust 149
Easington 183
East Anglia, lack of hills in and Brian Eno 230
East Chisenbury, midden 79
East Saxons 7
Eddington 124
Edward IV 45, 57
eels 5
Eliot, T S 254
Ely 258
Ely Cathedral 258
Enfold 73
English Civil War 199
English Heritage 23, 66, 84, 116, 280
Englishwomen, as nude models 187
married sex lives 223
Eno, Brian bad temper 230–1
Ethelred I 121–2, 123–4, 238
Ethelred II (‘the Unready’) 155
Ewelme 173–6
falconry 154–5, 156–9
Harris hawks 159
Farming in Crisis 221
Fens 263
Fighealden (Wiltshire) 73
Fittleton (Wiltshire) 73
Flag Fen 263, 265–6, 268–9, 278
Flagstones (Dorset) 26
Folly (Dorset) and its old drovers’ inn 35
Forestry Commission 202
foxes, dumped in countryside by London boroughs 131-3
Fox and Duck pub 241
Fox and Hounds pub 182–3
Fox Talbot Museum 189
Frost, Robert 125–6, 211
Fry, Stephen as charming but inconsequential 252
Gamekeeper at Home, The (Richard Jefferies) 105, 106
gamekeepers 105–8, 162–3, 221
Gareth of Orkney, Sir, Malory’s knight 145–148
Geoffrey of Monmouth 44
George III 50
Getty estate 135, 176, 208
Gewisse, see West Saxons
Gibbings, Robert, naturalist and bohemian 150–2
Glastonbury 43, 98
and ley lines 136
Glastonbury Festival 261
Glastonbury Romance, A (John Cowper Powys) 30, 31
Glastonbury Tor 48
Godric 239
Gog Magog Hills 242–3
Gogmagog: The Buried Gods (T C Lethbridge) 243, 245
Goring-on-Thames 125
Goring Gap 117, 118, 164
Grahame, Kenneth 110, 128, 138–44
and walking 212
great bustard 74–9
Great Bustard Group 75–9
great crested grebe 152
Great Orme mine 264
Great Stones Way (proposed trail from Stonehenge to Avebury) 70, 79
Griffiths, Eric 252–3, 254, 255
Grim’s Dyke 9–11, 57
Guthrum, King 124
Hanging Langford Camp 56
Harald Hardrada 237
Hardy, Thomas 8, 16, 26
on Maiden Castle 27
Harley, Steve, tries to walk on water 261
Harris hawks 159
Harrow Way 54
Hart, Stephen 163
Hastings, battle of 156
Havel, Václav 256
hawking, see falconry
Hawkins, Gerald 70
Hawley, William 66
Heath, Edward 236
Henley 8
Henry II of France 175
Henry VI 174
Henry VII 175
Henry VIII 18, 74
Herne Way 86–7
herons 144–5
Higher Melcombe 35
hill carvings 81–2, 113–16, 117, 119, 199, 204, 243, 257
hill-forts 16, 27–9
Alfred’s Castle 117
Barbury 101–2, 111, 117
Cadbury Castle 42–3
Casterley Camp 80
Cymbeline’s Castle 206, 207
Liddington 101, 105
Maiden Castle 24, 26–33
Poundbury 34
Ravensburgh Castle 214–16
Uffington 101
Wandlebury 243, 257
White Sheet Hill 53–4
Wittenham 147–8
Hirst, Damien 282
History of the Countryside, The (Oliver Rackham) 202
Hoare, Henry 49
Hofmann, Michael 253–4
Hoggart, Richard 234
Hollis, Matthew 126
Holme 277–8, 284
homelessness 97–8
Homer End 170–1
Honest to God (John Robinson) 226–8
Horse Hoeing Husbandry (Jethro Tull) 60
Hoskins, W G 267
Howard, Maurice 295
Huancacalle, Peru 19–20
Hudson, W H 36–7, 56
Hughes, David, falconer 156–9
Hughes, Thomas 115
Hughes, Tracy 156
Hunstanton 276–7
Iceni 242
Ickleford 225–6
Icknield Way:
assumption concerning level of 203–4
England’s most ancient route 16
fort defences connected by 117
in Kenneth Grahame 139
Harrow Way loop of 54
in Richard Jefferies 109–10
Kelshall as staging post along 236
‘Lower’ 204
map of 14–15
name, possible derivation of 80
old, farms along 137
remains uncommodified 6
‘Ridgeway’ as alternative name for section 125
surviving traces of 16
as trade route 28
Icknield Way, The (Edw
ard Thomas) 125, 126–7
Ignatieff, Michael 172
Illchester estate 19
Ipsden triangle similar to Bermuda 8
Ipsden wood 161
Ipswich 155
Irena 217, 224–5, 256, 257
and chickens 131–2
Iron Age:
hill-forts of, see hill-forts
jewellery from 215
‘Iron Man’, Black Sabbath song 257
Ivinghoe Beacon 209–10
Jefferies, Richard 3, 61, 105–10, 145
Jerome, Jerome K 153
Jerusalem (Jez Butterworth) 191
Jordan (Katie Price) 274
John of Gaunt 52
Jones, Steve, Sex Pistols guitarist 181
Judge Business School, Cambridge 248
Kayser Bonder building, Baldock 228
Keats, John 188, 211
Keiller, Alexander 86
Kelshall 236, 240
Kemp, Will 192
Kennett East Barrow 85
Kermode, Frank 250
Kilimanjaro 148
kingfisher 58
King’s Barrows 68–9
Kingstanding Hill 121–4
Kingston Russell 23, 24
Knight, Mark 270–3
Knowles, Tony 133, 134–5, 136
Langford Lakes 57
Larkin, Philip 173
Last Chance to See (Douglas Adams) 71
Latitude festival 261
Laurie, Hugh 252
Lawrence, D H 108
Lawrence, T E 18
Leatherne Bottel pub 182
Lennon, John 169
Lethbridge, T C 242–7
Levi, Peter 170
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 255
ley lines 135–6
Liddington 101, 117
Liddington camp 111
Liddington Hill 105, 109, 111
linden tree (small-leaved lime) 204–5
Lindisfarne 122, 237
Little Stoke, Oxfordshire 125, 128–30, 135, 137–8, 145–6, 164–6
Long Lane, Somerset 49, 52
Longstreet 73
Lorimer, John 277–8
Lothbrok brothers 122
Lothbrok, Ragnar 122
Lovell, Lyn, Rainbow Circle 89–90, 95, 98
Lowell, Robert 253
Lubbock, Tom 252
lungwort 213
Lynne (Great Bustard Group) 75–9
Lyscombe Bottom 35
MacCabe, Colin 249
magic mushrooms 260–1
Maiden Castle 24, 26–33
entrance to 32
Maiden Castle (Powys) 30, 31
excerpt from 31–2
Making of the English Landscape, The (Hoskins) 267
Maldon, battle of 154–5, 238–9
Malory, Thomas 44–8, 54–6, 57–8, 177, 241–2
Marlborough Downs 101
sarsen stones from 65
Matisse, Henri 187
Maughfling, Rollo, ‘Archdruid of Stonehenge and Glastonbury’ 279
Maxwell, Glyn 126
Medici, Catherine de 175
Mercia 122
Merlin (BBC) 44
Mike, farmer 40–2
Milk Marketing Board 21
Milton Abbas 35
Milton Lilbourne 59
minicab drivers 245, See archaeologists
mobile phones 225
Mold Cape 264
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de 211
Montgomery, David 222
Mor Regan, witch-harridans 102
morris dancing 191–3
Mort le Roi Artu, Le 55
Morte d’Arthur, Le (Malory) 44–8, 54–5, 57 see also Arthurian legend
Moulsford Common 122
Mount Badon, battle of 111, 117
Mount Tounot, Switzerland 212
muntjac deer 169–70
liver of, on toast 163
music festivals 261–2
Must Farm quarry 268–73, 278
Mutlow Hill 242
Nash, Paul 148
National Trust 116, 189
Neolithic Age:
barrows of, see barrows
stone and wood used as commemoration materials during 67, 71
stone circles from, see stone circles
Stonehenge as burial ground of 61–2; see also Stonehenge
Nettlebed 11
Nettlecombe Tout 35
Never Mind the Bollocks 181
Neville, Richard, Earl of Warwick 241
New Age travellers 61–2
New Yorker 25
Ngatoluwa, Michael 148
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) 167
Nineties: When Surface was Depth, The (Michael Bracewell) 250
Noakes, John 196
Norfolk:
Bronze Age boat find in 269–73
music festival at 259–61
remains of civilization under 263
Russia compared to 274
Norman conquest 156, 237
Northumbria 122
Oddie, Bill 76–7
Offa 239
Offa’s Dyke 11
Ogbourne St George 104
Old Adam Hill 81–2
Old Vicarage Farm, South Stoke (Oxfordshire) 133–4
Operation Sea Lion 118
Optical Stimulated Luminescence dating 114, 116, 198
Orwell (née O’Shaughnessy), Eileen, see Blair, Eileen
Orwell, George 166–8, 231–4, 236
Wallington house of 231–2
O’Shaughnessy, Eileen, see Blair, Eileen
otters 145
Overton Hill 85
Pagans, including Aylesbury Pagans 93
Parker Pearson, Mike 67
penis, as pet 198
Peterloo massacre 60
pheasants 20, 158, 219, 221
Philip of Spain 16–17
Phipps, John 133–5
Phipps, Sarah 133–6, 177
pies 22, 42, 52, 217, 228, 274
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan) 213
Pink Floyd 256
Piper, Edward 184–90
Piper, John 184, 185, 189, 190
Piper, Myfanwy 190
Piper, Prue 187, 190
Plantagenet, Edmund 176
Plantagenet, Richard 176
ploughing 220–1, 222
see also soil, science of; ‘zero tillage’
poaching 3–4, 20, 105
poets, and walking 210–11
Pop Art 185, 188
population, rural 263
Porius (John Cowper Powys) 31
Portia (dog) 196
Poundbury 33–5
Powys, John Cowper 29–32, 34
Preseli Mountains, bluestones from 64
Prynne, J H, cycling lugubriously 251
Pryor, Francis 66, 266–9, 279, 280
Purbeck 28
Quartermaine, Roger 183–4
rabbits, skinning 4
Rackham, Oliver 202
radiocarbon dating 29
Rainbow Circle 87–90, 94–101 passim
Raleigh, Walter 16
ravens 102–3, in Iron Age myth
Ravensburgh Castle 214–16
Ravilious, Eric 186
Rawle, Sid 97
Reade, Michael 163
Reading 122
red kites 73, 135, 176–7, 208
Reformation 18
Rew, Kate 129–30
Richard II (Shakespeare) 283
Richard III 175
Ricks, Christopher 250, 253–4
Ridgeway, 124, 125, See Icknield Way
Rings of Stone (Aubrey Burl) 23, 188
Ringstead (Norfolk) 276
Road to Wigan Pier, The (Orwell) 233–4
Roberts, Peter 220–1, 223
Robinson, John 226–8
Romans in Britain 24, 28, 29, 117, 206–7, 265
as anomalous interlude 204
and woodland 201–2
rooks 102
Roxy Music 230<
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Royal Institution 247–8
Runcie, Robert 227
Rural Rides (William Cobbett) 58–9, 121
St Albans, first battle of 241–2
St Catherine’s Chapel 12–13, 16
St Edmund (King of the Angles) 122, 236–8, 239–40, 277
St Edmund’s Chapel 277
St George 240
Salisbury Plain 50, 53, 56–7, 73–81, 201
bleak beauty of 79
and great bustard 74–80
in Malory 55–6
military use of 73, 78, 79–80, 80–1
see also Stonehenge
Salisbury Trust 19
Sanctuary, Avebury 85
Sandford, Jeremy 96–9, 179, 184
funeral of 99
Saxons 7, 33, 43
as austere rulers 238
at Avebury 70; see also Avebury
beginning of end for 155
falconry obsession of 154–5, 158
hunting lodges of 156
at Kingstanding Hill 121–4
legal system of 117
and Mount Badon 111, 117
obsessive lawmakers 160
and sexual ethics 160
Wessex created by 101
see also Alfred the Great; East Saxons; West Saxons
Scouring of the White Horse, The (Richard Hughes) 115
Seahenge 16, 72, 268, 278–82
Second World War 19, 118, 200
Secret Garden Party 261
seed drill 60
Self, Will as Martin Amis simalcrum 250
Sense of an Ending, The (Frank Kermode) 250
Seven Years War 50
Sex Pistols 181
Sexton, David 252
Shakespeare, William 177, 206–7
Sharples, Niall 26, 28, 29
sheep 36–7, 170–2
Shelter charity 97
Shepherd’s Life, A (Hudson) 36
showmen 193–5
Silbury Hill 28
Smith, Adam 59
soil, science of 222
see also ploughing; ‘zero tillage’
South Stoke 133, 169
Southey, Robert 211
Spanish Armada 16–17
Spartacus (dog) 196–7
squirrels, eating 4
Steeple Langford 57, 58–9
Steinbeck, John 196
Steinberg, Saul 25
Steiner, George 30
Stephen, Leslie 126
Sterne, Laurence 250
Stewart, Rory 37
Stoke Row 169, 181
stone circles:
Avebury, see main entry
Balquhain 188
Flagstones 26
Kingston Russell 23, 24
Stonehenge, see main entry
Stonehenge 16, 26, 61–70
‘Altar Stone’ at 65, 67
Amesbury Archer found near 230
bluestones at 64–5, 66
Cursus near 68, 69
evolving design of 64
fenced off 63
Great Stones Way proposal for 70, 79
illegal parties at 97
and ley lines 136
as Neolithic burial ground 61–2
Piper photographs 188
sarsen stones at 65, 66–7
Times article regarding 293–4
Times letter regarding 295
topsoil at 271
trilithons at 65, 67
see also Salisbury Plain
Stonehenge Riverside Project 67
Stoppard, Tom 256