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- Andersson, Hans
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Torp och backstugor i Länghem : en studie av bebyggelsens förändringar från 1600-talet till början av 1900-talet.
- 2007
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The paper is based on an inventory of crofts and cottages that was made in the parish of Länghem in the southern part of the province of Västergötland, Sweden at the end of the 1950ies and the beginning of the 1960ies. The parish of Länghem has both manors (the medieval Torpa and Hofsnäs and the 17th century Sällerås) and independent villages. The inventory was made quite traditionally. We tried to identify the locations of the crofts and cottages. We traced their history where it was possible and made a commented register of them. Besides the field material we used parish registration books of different kinds (sw. husförhörslängder, födelseand dödböcker) as source material. It was possible to get a rather good picture of the 19th century settlement in this way. For older periods the material was later supplemented with other kinds of source material, above all taxation assessment rolls (Sw. mantalslängder), which in this case go back as far as the 17th century. An official national report on the croft settlements made in 1911 is among other things based on parish statements, which have been of great value for our study. Some central questions among others in the paper concern how these kinds of settlements are spread over the surface of the parish chronologically and which spatial variations there are within the parish. The study covers the period from the 17th century to the beginning of 20th century. This 49 was a period involving many political, social, economic and demographical changes. Through the enclosures that occurred mainly in the 19th century the spatial structure of the countryside was entirely reshaped. Which consequences did this changing structure of the landscape have for the crofts? Did some of the croft settlements have their roots in older farm sites, that have been deserted farms, or through transformation of a taxed farm into a croft? How the picture of the development of the non-freehold settlements fits in with the general settlement patterns is another question to discuss. The study is presented mainly in a series of maps, which begins in the year 1695. The result is that the general picture, which one can find from other parts of the country, can also be seen in Länghem, even if there are differences, especially if you study the situation on the village level. In my paper I assume that there are different villages, which have different strategies.
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