ABSTRACT
The concept of heritage is invested with multiple and complex meanings. Although it draws on history as an academic discipline, concerned with understanding the past, it transcends the confines of careful, evidence-based reasoning. The history of preservation, then, ought properly to be located in the broader political and socio-cultural contemporary contexts. Preservation in Britain was, to a large degree, the product of late-Victorian campaigns to protect landscapes and buildings from the ravages wrought by the twin evils of industrialization and sprawling conurbations. The village of Sulgrave lies on a ridge in the undulating pasture land of the South Westernmost tip of North amptonshire, some seven miles North East of Banbury. As Governor-General, Grey had played a key role in preserving the Plains of Abraham as a National Park. His aim then had been the imperializing of the site of General Wolfe's defeat of the French in North America.
