ABSTRACT
Regional cultural landscape demands attention to regional icons, such as the Broadland wherry and windmill. The wherry as river vessel carrying regional cargo, or pleasure craft carrying leisure visitors, has, over 200 years, stood for the regional present and past, and since the mid-twentieth century has been subject to heritage salvage. The 'culture' in a revisited regional cultural landscape may variously indicate ways of life, habits of place, spheres of representation, material objects, forms of media, the province of a 'cultured' elite, that which is popular, that which is not nature, the modes through which nature is valued. Regional cultural landscape also preoccupies scholarship beyond geography, showing how regional questions may serve to entwine theory and description, and retune tradition. The history of regional work cuts across, and sometimes blurs, categories such as radical and conservative, progressive and traditional, cosmopolitan and nationalist, and any reclamation and reanimation of the region might proceed from embracing such a political genealogy.
