Abstract
ABSTRACTFollowing on from the previous paper on this coast in this journal (vol 42 (2) 2017), this paper deals with the period in which monasteries were largely responsible for creating the coast of south Lindsey and north Holland. The means of this achievement was the making of salt, carried out by large numbers of tenants. Their method of salt-making (‘sleeching’) created large quantities of silty wastes and these enabled the industry to expand seawards and hence create the shoreline. The dissolution of the monasteries and the increased dominance of imported salt coincided with the impulse to reclaim salt-marsh for grazing and tillage and so the industry declined into the early modern period. Salt-making created a distinct landscape type, the Tofts, which survives in the present.
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