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SUMMARY:‘Estate Reconstitution’ and the Separation of Town and Country
 side: the case of Kent’s rural-urban fringe\, 1577-1914 - Professor Davi
 d Ormrod (Kent) 
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CONTACT:Sian Pooley
DESCRIPTION:‘Estate reconstitution’ involves a new methodology for dis
 tinguishing ‘pure’ agricultural ground rent from urban and other non-a
 gricultural rents which formed an increasing proportion of landlords’ in
 come during the period of industrialisation.  Applied initially to estates
  in London and the South East from 1577-1914\, it utilises a  web-based re
 search platform\, which provides a means of relating quantitative data to 
 spatial and visual information\, such as estate surveys\, plans and histor
 ic maps\, alongside textual material\, including leases (see www.cityandre
 gion.org).  The methodology will enable economic historians to locate seri
 al data in an authentic environmental and regional context\, sometimes neg
 lected in the analysis of large datasets.  Some preliminary results will b
 e discussed arising from this ESRC-funded project\, relating to the emerge
 nce of Kent’s rural-urban fringe\, a shifting\, semi-peripheral zone com
 posed initially of low-rented agricultural land which provided sites for n
 ew industries\, warehousing\, distribution services\, and residential deve
 lopment.  Within the wider metropolitan region\, comparative rent movement
 s suggest a greater degree of continuity between town and countryside than
  has traditionally been assumed.
LOCATION:Graham Storey Room\, Trinity Hall
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