Keeping your eye on the GOAL

In our landscape study there is still a lot of preparation to undertake. We will be dealing with historical information in documents in future pieces. Before we do that there is a major piece of research to undertake. Armed with the early maps and modern maps, and any transcriptions, we need to venture outside to pursue an important research method called GOAL – Go Out And Look! If we are ever to understand an area in the way earlier people did, we need to walk over it all, looking at the natural and man-made topography and recording any features that we encounter – earthworks, stone banks, and so on. My study of Winscombe parish really began many years ago with walks across the la