1. Coming next: Your map clues!
INVESTIGATING
BRIGSTOCK
Part One
Coming next: Your map clues!

2. Map of Brigstock today. Can you see: Roads? Houses? The school?
Fields?
Your house?
A stream?
Anything else?
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3. This map of Brigstock is much older.
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This map of Brigstock is much older.
It was drawn in 1805.
Can you see:
Roads?
Houses?
Back gardens?
The school?
Fields?
Your house?
The stream?
Anything else?

4. This is our first study area. What is the same? What is different?
1805
This is our first study area.
What is the same?
What is different?
What will you look out for?
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5. ‘The road that leads nowhere’.
INVESTIGATING
BRIGSTOCK
Part Two
‘The road that leads nowhere’.
And now…more clues!

6. This is what the land round Brigstock is like today.
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This is what the land round Brigstock is like today.

7. This is the same area in about 1880. What is different?

8. Between 1880 and today what happened to the village and the roads?
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9. This is based on an even older map from 1725.
It shows how the open fields around Brigstock were split up into strips. The strips belonged to different people.

10. 1880.
1725.
Between 1725 and 1880, what changed either side of the road?

11. This map shows the woods (green) in 1814.
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This map shows the woods (green) in 1814.
Between 1814 and today what happened to the woods?

12. Between 1803 and today what has changed and what has stayed the same?
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Between 1803 and today what has changed and what has stayed the same?
This map was drawn in in 1803 to show who owned what.

13. The information from the old maps has been put together on this new map.
We can see how people used the land round Brigstock in 1805.

14. Brigstock today
Brigstock 1805 and earlier
This is the trail for our second study area.
What is the same?
What is different?
What will you look out for?

15. Produced by Rachel Shaw for Rockingham Forest Trust
2008