• inscription: "W. G. Hoskins CBE FBA Dlitt 1908–1992 Historian of Devon, Exeter and the English Landscape Born Here 'Hic Amor, Haec Patria Est'." Hoskins wrote...
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  • Zealand William Hoskins (inventor) (1862–1934), American co-inventor of nichrome and modern billiard chalk W. G. Hoskins (William George Hoskins, 1908–1992)...
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    and the West Country. An example of a dispersed settlement given by W G Hoskins is Middle Barton in Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire. In some parts of England...
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    parish church, hidden behind a high boundary wall, and was described by W. G. Hoskins as "perhaps the finest Tudor house in Devon". The parish church is dedicated...
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  • with W.G. Hoskins is a BBC television documentary series broadcast on BBC Two in 1976 and 1978. Written and presented by Professor W.G. Hoskins, the series...
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    restored in the 1860s by the Moore-Stevens family and is, according to W. G. Hoskins, "entirely without interest". Ball clay is quarried in the east of the...
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    Essays in Leicestershire History, W. G. Hoskins. The Depopulation Returns for Leicestershire 1607, L. A. Parker. W. G. Hoskins. "Seven Deserted Village Sites...
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  • nucleated villages originated in Anglo-Saxon England, but historian W. G. Hoskins discredits a previously held view that uniquely associated nucleated...
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    unlikely to erode further. In The Making of the English Landscape, W. G. Hoskins explains the origin of some English holloways as a pair of matched earth...
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    ("Brictric held the undermentioned lands and later Queen Matilda") W. G. Hoskins (1977). The Making of the English Landscape. Book Club Associates. pp...
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