IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features John Goodall writes in Country Life about ‘How sheep farming transformed the architectural face of the Cotswolds’.
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John Goodall writes in Country Life:
….This area of limestone upland that spans parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire provided excellent pasture. Too dry for cattle, it was perfectly suited for sheep…. One of the ways in which the profits… were invested was in the construction and furnishing of parish churches….
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