The thing that I always find so fascinating about the English landscape is that every bit of it has been crafted by man. This old tree was probably planted by somebody's grandfather on land that's been intensively farmed for a couple thousand years. There's a Roman road that runs about a mile from here, that was built originally in 43 AD to connect the Northeast of England with the Southwest (from Lincoln to Ilcester in Somerset) and for the first few decades after the Roman invasion of Britain, it marked the Western frontier of the Roman empire. I now drive it to work everyday, past the old Roman town near Chesterton that was inhabited until the 4 th century AD, past the windmill that was built in 1632, and over the more modern feat of engineering, the M40 motorway. I hadn't really thought about it before, but that's two thousand years of history on my 20 minute commute. Amazing.
Sunday 20 January 2008
Project 52 (3 / 52)
The thing that I always find so fascinating about the English landscape is that every bit of it has been crafted by man. This old tree was probably planted by somebody's grandfather on land that's been intensively farmed for a couple thousand years. There's a Roman road that runs about a mile from here, that was built originally in 43 AD to connect the Northeast of England with the Southwest (from Lincoln to Ilcester in Somerset) and for the first few decades after the Roman invasion of Britain, it marked the Western frontier of the Roman empire. I now drive it to work everyday, past the old Roman town near Chesterton that was inhabited until the 4 th century AD, past the windmill that was built in 1632, and over the more modern feat of engineering, the M40 motorway. I hadn't really thought about it before, but that's two thousand years of history on my 20 minute commute. Amazing.
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