ABSTRACT

There is a well-known book by Kevin Lynch entitled WhatTimeIsThisPlace? (1973) concerned to demonstrate that many places are particularly redolent of specific periods of history. This is obviously true of many towns, such as Bath or Liverpool, and it was the built environment which most interested Lynch, but it is also true of many less urbanised landscapes. However, to this interesting question these last chapters add two more of similar kind – Whose is this Place? And, rather more intriguingly, Where is this place? or What place is this place?