Front Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Colour Plates

List of Figures

List of Tables

Editors’ Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction by Christopher Dyer and Matthew Tompkins

Chapter 1: Definitions and limitations

Defining Dartmoor’s resources

Dartmoor and its parts

Transhumance and its types

Limitations of this book

Chapter 2: The red tides: Impersonal transhumance and the central moor

The central moor: ownership and commoners

Distances travelled and middlemen

Pastoral management: the herdsman’s year

Livestock: numbers and types

Chapter 3: The red tides: Impersonal transhumance and the outer moors

Ownership and commoners

Pastoral management: drifts, structures, strays

Perambulation and dispute resolution

Order and disorder: outer moors and the central moor

Chapter 4: Personal transhumance: Distant detachments

Cockington and Dewdon

Ipplepen, Abbotskerswell and their links

Detached parts of the Hundreds of Exminster, Wonford and Kerswell

Kenton with Heatree

Paignton and its parts

Lifton and Sourton

Northlew, Venn and Lettaford

Tavistock and Cudlipp

Bickleigh and Sheepstor

The significance of the detachments

Chapter 5: Personal transhumance: Archaeology, topography, place-names and history

Archaeology and topography

Place-names and history: economy and society

Chapter 6: Domesday Book and beyond: The transition from personal to impersonal transhumance

The role of colonists

The role of lords

The role of the Crown

Chapter 7: Dartmoor and beyond

Droveways

Pastoral husbandry

The implications of transhumance for lowland farming

Conclusion by Christopher Dyer and Matthew Tompkins

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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