The Whittlewood Project: Medieval Settlements and Landscapes in the Whittlewood Area

Containing a full record of primary data, processed data, and interpretation of data, the digital archive was created during the course of the ARHB funded Whittlewood Project which ran between 2000 and 2005. The principal aim of this project was to explore the origins and development of a group of rural settlements in the Central Midlands which adopted both nucleated and dispersed forms, and to explore the reasons for this divergence. These forms, which began to crystallize in the period between AD 805 and 1250 were examined in the longer context of settlement development from the Mesolithic to the present day, and their broader landscape setting. The project adopted an interdisciplinary approach, primarily using historical and archaeological data supplemented by evidence from buildings survey, place-names, and the palaeoenvironmental record.