The Watermills and Landscape of the River Great Ouse, Cambridgeshire

REVIEW BY MAGNUS ALEXANDER This is a fascinating landscape history of a medieval ‘watermilling powerhouse’, which demonstrates that over 1,000 years of watermilling has had a huge impact on an apparently natural braided river. Most of the book consists of a chronological examination of the evidence for watermills and their associated landscapes. Understandably, the Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon periods are dealt with briefly and the Domesday chapter contains much of interest. The book really hits its stride in the high medieval period and examines in detail the conflicts on an intensely exploited river – between different mills and their owners, between conflicting uses (such a