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The Land That Made Us
The Peak District farmer's story
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- ISBN: 9781912560325192 pages
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- Edited by Christine Gregory and Sheila Hine
- Publication date
- 3 Oct 2019
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The South West Peak is a lesser-known part of the Peak District stretching from Lyme Park in Cheshire in the north to Onecote in Staffordshire in the south, and from Macclesfield in the west to Buxton in the east. This landscape area includes tracts of high moorland, fertile valleys, wooded cloughs, picturesque villages and tiny hamlets. The farmers of the South West Peak are the people who have made the landscape what it is today, and it is their personal accounts of working in this often challenging land that form the basis of The Land That Made Us.
The Land That Made Us asks what makes for sustainability in the short and the long term. The future of this landscape and of the farming communities that sustain it hangs in the balance, and it is the farmers’ turn to reflect on their past and speculate about the future.
The Farming Life Centre provides health, well-being and business information and support to the farming and rural community of the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Peak District. Christine Gregory is a freelance writer, photographer and artist, and the author of three books about the Peak District area. Her family on her mother’s side spans 400 years of farming history, and her father’s family were gamekeepers and farm labourers. Sheila Hine is a dairy farmer in the South-West Peak and an oral historian and photographer. She has published ten books on local history.
- Title: The Land That Made Us
- Subtitle: The Peak District farmer's story
- Editors: Christine Gregory and Sheila Hine
- Imprint: Vertebrate Publishing
- ISBN: 978-1-912560-32-5
- Rights: World
- Publication date: 3 October 2019
- Edition: First
- Size: 200mm x 240mm
- Extent: 192 pages
- Cover: Paperback
- Weight: 700g
- Retail price: £16.99
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