Career
He has been a lecturer in geography at several British and Irish universities. He has been widely published for over 30 years on landscape history. Modern Political Geography (1975)
The English Village (1980)
The Lost Villages of Britain (1982)
History From The Air (1983)
The National Trust Guide to Prehistoric and Roman Britain (with H Welfare, 1983)
The Yorkshire Countryside: A Landscape History (1997)
Landscape Encyclopaedia (2004).