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Andrew Macnair is a Research Fellow in the School of History, University of East Anglia. He read Natural Sciences at Queens' College, Cambridge prior to becoming a General Practitioner in rural Norfolk. In retirement he has developed an interest in computer-aided analysis of 18th century East Anglian maps. Anne Rowe is a freelance landscape historian who has coordinated research for the Hertfordshire Gardens Trust since 1998 and lectures in landscape history. Publications include books about Hertfordshire’s Garden History, Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire, chapters for the Historical Atlas of Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire: A landscape history – co-authored with Tom Williamson. She is currently working on a book about Hertfordshire’s parks in the 16th and 17th centuries. Tom Williamson was born in Hemel Hemstead in Hertfordshire, and was brought up in Bushey, before reading history and archaeology at Jesus College, Cambridge. Since 1984 he has taught at the University of East Anglia. He is now Professor of Landscape History there, and has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history and the history of landscape design. He has a particular interest in the landscape history of Hertfordshire.