Richard Muir

Author of The English Village

About the Author

Richard Muir has written more than twenty books on various aspects of landscape. He is Senior Lecturer in Geography, University College of Ripon and York St John

Includes the names: Richard Muir, R. Muir/ Richard Muir

Also includes: MUIR (RICHARD) (5)

Works by Richard Muir

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The English Village (1980) 121 copies

The Lost Villages of Britain (1982) 60 copies

Riddles in the British Landscape (1981) 60 copies, 1 review

The Villages of England (1992) 43 copies

Shell Guide to Reading the Landscape (1981) 39 copies

Traveller's History of Britain and Ireland (1983) 35 copies

History from the air (1983) 29 copies

The National Trust Guide to Prehistoric and Roman Britain (1983) 27 copies

National Trust Guide to Dark Age and Mediaeval Britain (1985) 26 copies

How to Read a Village (2007) 23 copies

The new reading the landscape : fieldwork in landscape history (2000) 23 copies

Shell Guide to Reading the Celtic Landscapes (1985) 19 copies

Landscape Encyclopaedia: A Reference to the Historic Landscape (2004) 16 copies

Ancient Trees, Living Landscapes (Revealing History) (2005) 16 copies

Stones of Britain (1986) 15 copies

Castles and Strongholds (1990) 15 copies

The National Trust Rivers of Britain (1986) 15 copies

Portraits of the Past (1989) 14 copies

The Dales of Yorkshire: A Portrait (1991) 14 copies

Fields (1989) 14 copies

The Shell Countryside Book (1984) 13 copies

Approaches to Landscape (1999) 12 copies

Be your own landscape detective : investigating where you are (2007) 12 copies

Landscape Detective: Discovering a Countryside (2001) 10 copies

Landscape and Nature Photography (1986) 10 copies

Woods, Hedgerows & Leafy Lanes (2008) 8 copies

The Yorkshire countryside : a landscape history (1997) 8 copies

Politics, Geography and the Behavior (University Paperbacks) (1981) 7 copies

Hedgerows: Their History and Wildlife (1987) 5 copies

Yorkshire Dales Stonewaller (1992) 5 copies

Nidderdale: Elegy for the Dale (2010) 5 copies

Political Geography: A New Introduction (1997) 4 copies

Modern Political Geography (1975) 4 copies

The Coastlines of Britain (1993) 3 copies

Old Yorkshire (1987) 3 copies

The Countryside Encyclopaedia (1988) 3 copies

So You're Engaged — Editor — 1 copy, 1 review

The National Trust Guide to Dark Age and Medieval Britain 400 - 1350 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Muir, Richard Ernest
Birthdate: 1943-06-18
Gender: male
Education: University of Aberdeen (PhD)
Short biography: Richard Muir was born in a Yorkshire village, and worked for a time on the local newspaper before taking First Class Honours in Geography and received his Ph.D. from Aberdeen University. He now lives and writes in the village of Great Shelford near Cambridge, in a region that has been unusually well studied through field archaeology, local history, and the recorded reminiscences of generations of villagers. [from The English Village (1980)]
Nationality: UK
Places of residence: Birstwith, Yorkshire, England, UK
Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Associated Place (for map): England, UK