ABSTRACT
As relationships between people are the cornerstones of relations between regions, so regional differences respond to, and are indeed created out of social, economic, cultural and political differences. Regional differences in turn shape the lives and societies that inhabit them, thereby setting up a two-way interrelationship between people and place. These relationships and landscapes, fashioned to fit the needs of each age, are passed on and reformulated by successive generations. This is as true of the eleventh century South East as of today.
