Landscape and Place Names in the North
Saturday 3rd February 2007
A Study Day to celebrate the work of Dr Mary Higham
was held at Lancaster University and organised by the Centre for North-West Regional
Studies and the Department of Continuing Education. It was greatly over-subscribed
and many SNSBI members who wished to attend were unable to do so. The programme is
given below.
10.00am Introduction and Eulogy - Dr Alan Crosby.
Morning Session chair - John Darlington - National Trust.
10.15 - 11.15 Mary Higham's Landscapes - Dr Alan Crosby.
11.45 - 12.45 Floods and the Landscape in Cumbria - Professor Ian Whyte.
Afternoon Session chair - Mary Atkin.
1.45 - 2.45 Landscapes and Place Names in the Northwest - Dr Margaret Gelling.
3.15 - 4.15 Marches and Coldrain: exploring the place names of boundaries and assembly
sites in east central Scotland - Dr Simon Taylor.
Page maintained by Susan Laflin for SNSBI. Last updated February 2007.