Family and maritime community : Robin Hood's Bay, c.1653-c.1867
This study of a coastal settlement, in challenging its traditional classification as a ~fishing village~, may strengthen the case for more investigations of the kind. Coastal erosion at Robin Hood's Bay created a compactness which contributed to the cohesion of the population. Confined between Highland and the North Sea, the settlement shared the remoteness, cultural even more than geographical, of seaward-looking Whitby. With enclosure as a detectable factor, population was probably drawn from the adjacent countryside in the fifteenth century, to accumulate around a fishing-farming nucleus. In the seventeenth century the traditional manorial situation in Fylingdales began to change, with the introduction of 1,000-year leaseholds in Robin Hood's Bay. This contributed to relative immobility of the settlement's population. Servicing by sea of the local alum industry, and the rise of the east-coast coal trade, became the means of extending the equalitarian and co-operative order of fishing to seafaring and shipping enterprise. The return on this, assisted by the unusually long tenure, was sufficient to support the growth of networks of kin so forbidding in their complexity that family reconstitution, from parish
Storm, Alan
Family and maritime community : Robin Hood's Bay, c.1653-c.1867. This study of a coastal settlement, in challenging its traditional classification as a ~fishing village~, may strengthen the case for more investigations of the kind. Coastal erosion at Robin Hood's Bay created a compactness which contributed to the cohesion of the population. Confined between Highland and the North Sea, the settlement shared the remoteness, cultural even more than geographical, of seaward-looking Whitby. With enclosure as a detectable factor, population was probably drawn from the adjacent countryside in the fifteenth century, to accumulate around a fishing-farming nucleus. In the seventeenth century the traditional manorial situation in Fylingdales began to change, with the introduction of 1,000-year leaseholds in Robin Hood's Bay. This contributed to relative immobility of the settlement's population. Servicing by sea of the local alum industry, and the rise of the east-coast coal trade, became the means of extending the equalitarian and co-operative order of fishing to seafaring and shipping enterprise. The return on this, assisted by the unusually long tenure, was sufficient to support the growth of networks of kin so forbidding in their complexity that family reconstitution, from parish
family maritime community study coastal_settlement challenge_traditional classification fishing village may strengthen case investigation kind coastal erosion create contribute cohesion population highland north_sea settlement share cultural even geographical looking enclosure detectable factor population probably draw adjacent countryside accumulate around fishing farming nucleus traditional manorial situation begin change introduction year leasehold contribute relative settlement population sea local industry rise east_coast coal trade become mean extend co_operative order fish seafaring ship enterprise return assist unusually long tenure sufficient support growth network kin complexity family reconstitution parish