Agricultural History Review, Volume 42 Part 1 (1994), pp. 1–19

This paper attempts to reconstruct the patterns of seasonal land management in the granges, forest vaccaries and central 'pools' of the earl of Lincoln's Ightenhill demesnes in upland Lancashire. Two of the estate's Michaelmas accounts survive, dating to a period now seen as a watershed between the prosperous 'High Farming' period of the thirteenth century and the 'Crisis years' of the first quarter of the next. This relatively remote estate was geared to a cash economy, and the products were such as could well be produced under local conditions of climate, terrain and transport. 

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