Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- 1.1 Part of the Midlands: proposed regions -- 2.1 The Test Area, Marriage Study Area and Focus Area -- 2.2 Test Area: relief and drainage -- 2.3 The River Eye at Bescaby -- 2.4 The county boundary at Sewstern Lane -- 2.5 Test Area: the seven 'landscapes' -- 2.6 The scarp slope of the Heath from Buckminster -- 2.7 The scarp slope of the Waltham-on-the-Wolds outlier -- 2.8 Grantham from the east -- 2.9 Stoke Rochford -- 2.10 Great Ponton and the River Witham -- 2.11 Skillington -- 2.12 Stroxton -- 2.13 Parish church at Waltham-on-the-Wolds -- 2.14 Parish church at Skillington -- 2.15 Heath vegetation at Sewstern Lane -- 2.16 Lincolnshire Limestone Heath near Wyville -- 2.17 General heath landscape -- 2.18 Saltby Heath Farm -- 2.19 Old quarry in the Heath near Sproxton -- 2.20 Old railway track near South Witham -- 2.21 Field lowered by twentieth-century ironstone mining near Sewstern -- 2.22 Boulder Clay Uplands near Burton Coggles -- 2.23 Limestone buildings at Burton Coggles -- 2.24 South Kesteven Limestone Plateau -- 2.25 Castle Bytham -- 2.26 The Marlstone Bench from Lings Hill -- 2.27 Belvoir Castle -- 2.28 Ironstone buildings at Holwell -- 2.29 Former ironstone quarry near Holwell -- 2.30 Former mineral line near Holwell -- 2.31 The site of Hoby in the Wreake Valley -- 2.32 High Leicestershire from Burrough Hill -- 2.33 Ridge and furrow near Kirby Bellars -- 2.34 Former gentlemen's club in Melton Mowbray -- 2.35 Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray -- 2.36 River Eye, east of Melton Mowbray -- 2.37 The Wreake Valley at Kirby Bellars -- 2.38 Melton Mowbray from Thorpe Arnold -- 2.39 Parish church of Kirby Bellars -- 2.40 St Mary's church, Melton Mowbray -- 2.41 Vale of Belvoir from Stathern Hill -- 2.42 The site of Hose in the Vale of Belvoir -- 3.1 Test Area: population aged 16 and over in 1676.

3.2 Test Area: estimated density of population in 1676 -- 3.3 Test Area: density of population in 1811 -- 3.4 Test Area: population percentage increase 1676 to 1811 -- 3.5 Test Area: open-field and enclosed parishes in 1676 -- 4.1 Test Area: proportion of parishes as arable land in 1801 -- 4.2 Test Area: 'open' and 'close' parishes -- 5.1 Traditional vernacular building styles in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire -- 5.2 Seventeenth-century mud and stud house at Thurlby, Lincolnshire -- 5.3 Mud and stud building reroofed and encased in stone at Edenham, Lincolnshire -- 5.4 Cob wall at Long Clawson, Leicestershire -- 5.5 Cruck-frame house at Hoby, Leicestershire -- 5.6 Box-frame house with wattle and daub infill -- 5.7 Box-frame house with brick infill at Hoby, Leicestershire -- 5.8 Distribution of known mud and stud buildings in Lincolnshire in 2000 -- 5.9 Examples of differences in traditional dialect between Leicestershire and Lincolnshire -- 5.10 Probate inventories: regional variation in farming terms -- 6.1 Marriage Study Area of Leicestershire 1754-1810: counties of residence of extra-parochial partners -- 6.2 Marriage Study Area of Kesteven 1754-1810: counties of residence of extra-parochial partners -- 6.3 Marriage horizons 1754-1810 -- 6.4 Major desire lines for extra-parochial marriage partners 1754-1810 -- 6.5 Percentages of extra-parochial partners to and from Leicestershire parishes in the map area -- 6.6 Six Witham Valley parishes: homes of bondsmen in marriage licence applications 1701-1810 -- 6.7 Six Witham Valley parishes: homes of bondsmen in other parishes in probate administrations 1701-1810 -- 6.8 Median positions of persons in other parishes in wills 1710-1810 -- 6.9 Four Lincolnshire parishes next to the county boundary: homes of persons mentioned in wills from other parishes 1701-1810.

6.10 Six Witham Valley parishes: locations of real estate in other parishes in wills 1701-1810 -- 6.11 Major desire lines for migration in the Focus Area 1701-1810 -- 6.12 Migration both ways in the Focus Area 1701-1810 -- 6.13 Net migration in the Focus Area 1701-1810 -- 7.1 Two single-parish dynasties -- 7.2 Dynasties in two parishes in the Focus Area 1701-1810 -- 7.3 Berridge dynasty: a two-parish dynasty in Skillington and Stoke Rochford -- 7.4 Dynasties in three parishes in the Focus Area 1701-1810 -- 7.5 Morris dynasty: a dynasty across several parishes -- 7.6 Chief desire lines for shared surnames in the Focus Area 1701-1810 -- 8.1 Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire: turnpike roads in 1760 -- 8.2 Carriers in the 1840s between the market towns of Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and adjacent counties -- 8.3 North-east Leicestershire and south-west Kesteven: main roads -- 8.4 Village carriers in the mid-nineteenth century -- 9.1 Parts of Leicestershire, Rutland and Kesteven: Scandinavian influence on place-names -- 9.2 Test Area: railways and canals in the nineteenth century -- 9.3 North-east Leicestershire and south-west Kesteven: modern bus journeys -- Tables -- 3.1 Population densities from hearth tax, 1676 Compton census and bishop's visitation c1705 -- 3.2 Focus Area parishes: population or households per 100 acres in rank order -- 3.3 Population density: mean rank order of the parishes in the seven 'landscapes' -- 3.4 Percentage changes in population/households from 1563 to the eighteenth century -- 3.5 Population density: mean rank order of parishes which were open-field or enclosed in 1676 -- 4.1 Poor law relief 1803 and hearth tax exemptions 1660s/70s -- 4.2 Percentages of parishes as arable land 1801 -- 6.1 Test Area: extra-parochial marriage links between the 'landscapes' 1754-1810.

6.2 Fifty parishes of Test Area: extra-parochial marriage links between early- and late-enclosed parishes 1754-1810 -- 6.3 Fifty parishes of Test Area: links between 'open' and 'close' parishes 1754-1810 -- 6.4 Focus Area: occupations of migrants 1701-1810 as percentages -- General Editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The hypothesis -- Chapter 2: The Test Area -- Part 2: A countryside divided? -- Chapter 3: Land and people of the proposed frontier -- Chapter 4: Economic characteristics and contrasts -- Chapter 5: Cultural expressions -- Part 3: Mechanisms of segregation -- Chapter 6: Personal spatial loyalties -- Chapter 7: Kinship and dynastic moulds -- Chapter 8: County and town polarities -- Part 4: Conclusion -- Appendix: Family reconstitution -- Bibliography -- Index -- Chapter 9: Overall judgement and findings.