‘In clear and elegant prose he described how lanes and hedges, copses, farmsteads, fields and place names could tell the story of the past and explain the configuration of the present. His fascination with and evident delight in such details as Anglo-Saxon estate boundaries, ridge-and-furrow field patterns and the street plans of medieval towns spoke from the page, and the grimy quality of the dated black-and-white photographs only strengthened the spell he cast.’
Annabel Walker celebrated the English landscape and The Making of the English Landscape by W. G. Hoskins in Slightly Foxed Issue 4. Rather than a grimy black-and-white photograph, the article was illustrated with this woodcut of the Roman Wall by Clifford Webb to demonstrate just how wonderful the English countryside can be.
