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The original of this project map was created by the late John Dyke, an artist and, during the second world war and before his retirement from the NT, a cartographer, who used to live in Bohetherick. On this map he included the streams and the river and dotted in the tracks that we believed would have been there by 1485, as they went from farm to farm or from these to the Mills, Church or the Manor houses. This was then shaded to show the hills in the manner used on very old maps, so that hills appear in semi-profile even though the map is in plan-view.                                     Section of Map 1 with added Neolithic detail outside parish boundary However, in prehistory – of course – there was no such designated area as our Parish, but what there was, most probably, were the streams and the river. From countries, to counties to parishes, natural features, such as...

Thank you to 'The Who'd' for creating this Blog for St. Dominick - I am sure that it will be a mine of information over the years. A bit of background: Those who know me (either as Ann Murphy or as my author name of Ann Foweraker: my maiden name) will know that I have had a lifelong interest in history, and in local and vernacular history in particular. When we moved into Radland in1983 I was determined to find out the history of that old house – and that also led me into glimpses of the history of St. Dominick itself.  However, it was the inspiration of The Parish Map Project (a Common Ground initiative) that led me to work with about forty people within the parish (with many doing the research, artists creating the illustrations and others providing services, like photocopying) eventually to collate everything and to create a series of maps illustrating the history of the parish. A section of the 1748 Parish Map Project If you were not involved, a little about th...