Sheep on the Hills - Wool on their Backs

with Graham Winton

26 Nov - 28 Nov 2010

Farncombe Estate Adult Learning Centre, Broadway, Worcestershire , WR12 7LJ

Wool was one of the main sources of England's prosperity in the middle and early post-middle ages. Historical sources and evidence from the landscape tell us about the value of wool production, exports to Flanders and Italy; fortunes made from the wool trade survive in the form of the great wool churches, earthworks, place names, pack routes to the ports and homes of the wool merchants and clothiers.