A review of changing attitudes to the historical dimensions of the landscape during the past 25 years based on lectures given at a symposium held at Bournemouth in 1995 in honour of Christopher Taylor. Contents include: Dorset and Beyond (Christopher Taylor); Lamberde, Leie, dillameres dic: A lost or living landscape? (Della Hooke); Historic landscape character mapping in Cornwall (Peter Herring and Nicholas Johnson); 'A trifle historical': Making landscapes in Northumbria (Peter Fowler); Lanscapes and the archaeologist (Timothy Darvill); Fish, fur and feather: Man and nature in the post-medieval landscape (Tom Williamson); Reflections and postscript (Robert Higham).