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Field

Harriet Tarlo

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Shearsman Books
Año de edición:
2016
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9781848615113
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At Pangeston (at Domesday, 1086), then Pengeston, Peniston, Penistone (Pen, Celtic for hill, here the great ridge between the Don and the Little Don), the highest market town in England, seen by any train traveller heading in and out of town on the 29 arch viaduct over the River Don: a field: through its creation (form) and its maintenance (labour), a field is, and has been since Neolithic succeeded Paleolithic times, a place where land and human meet, a meeting which originated with the clearing of the ground, the woodland and the animals, to create O.E. feld probably related to O.E. folde: “earth, land," from P.Gmc.: "plain, open land" (OED). 

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