Author: Charles Herbert Grinling
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Languages : en
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The Dukeries, Sherwood Forest and the Lincolnshire Sea-side ...
Author: Charles Herbert Grinling
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Languages : en
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Who's who
Author: Henry Robert Addison
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast, and Great Northern Railways
Author: Charles Herbert Grinling
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The Bankers', Insurance Managers', and Agents' Magazine
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Bankers' Magazine, Journal of the Money Market and Commercial Digest
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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The Dukeries and Sherwood Forest
Author: Robert Innes-Smith
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ISBN: 9780851010816
Category : Dukeries (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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ISBN: 9780851010816
Category : Dukeries (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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The Railway Magazine
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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The Dukeries and the Sherwood Forest
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Category : Nottinghamshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Category : Nottinghamshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Railway News, Finance and Joint-stock Companies' Journal
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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Sherwood Forest and the Dukeries
Author: Adrian Gray
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Forest of Sherwood combines many of the most romantic elements of English history in one place. The ruthless Norman monarchs hunted here, but the Forest was still full of peasant life while great events were taking place at Clipstone's royal 'palace'. The Norman barons, fearing death and judgement, gifted land to the monasteries, and the monks became the first great owners of Sherwood besides the king. When the monasteries were swept away their place was quickly taken by acquisitive landowners who, through marriage and payment, became the new aristocracy. Some say they actually stole what was left of Sherwood from the Crown itself. For a brief time these gilded nobles ruled the Forest and the whole country, building political dynasties on local wealth and influence, with grand houses to match. The discovery of coal seemed to offer an even grander future of limitless wealth but it all vanished in barely two generations as stiffer taxation, combined with excessive gambling, womanising and wasteful living, threw away wealth that had taken generations to build up. Today Sherwood and the Dukeries has a different economy, increasingly based on tourism, as visitors come to see a Forest that is more legendary now than it ever was in centuries gone by. There have been many books about the Dukeries, but they have usually concentrated on one family or one house. Adrian Gray weaves together the story of places and people that have made the area special, although not necessarily in the way that tourists imagine.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Forest of Sherwood combines many of the most romantic elements of English history in one place. The ruthless Norman monarchs hunted here, but the Forest was still full of peasant life while great events were taking place at Clipstone's royal 'palace'. The Norman barons, fearing death and judgement, gifted land to the monasteries, and the monks became the first great owners of Sherwood besides the king. When the monasteries were swept away their place was quickly taken by acquisitive landowners who, through marriage and payment, became the new aristocracy. Some say they actually stole what was left of Sherwood from the Crown itself. For a brief time these gilded nobles ruled the Forest and the whole country, building political dynasties on local wealth and influence, with grand houses to match. The discovery of coal seemed to offer an even grander future of limitless wealth but it all vanished in barely two generations as stiffer taxation, combined with excessive gambling, womanising and wasteful living, threw away wealth that had taken generations to build up. Today Sherwood and the Dukeries has a different economy, increasingly based on tourism, as visitors come to see a Forest that is more legendary now than it ever was in centuries gone by. There have been many books about the Dukeries, but they have usually concentrated on one family or one house. Adrian Gray weaves together the story of places and people that have made the area special, although not necessarily in the way that tourists imagine.