{
  "note": "The published epochs of REWT. Generated from _data/epochs.yml; see https://docuracy.github.io/REWT/epochs for the reasoning.",
  "epochs": [
    {
      "year": 1086,
      "why": "Domesday — corroborated by independent evidence the project can hold: the coastline, and the mills"
    },
    {
      "year": 1300,
      "why": "the high medieval maximum, before plague and the late-medieval retreat"
    },
    {
      "year": 1540,
      "why": "the Dissolution; the legislative record begins in 1539"
    },
    {
      "year": 1600,
      "why": "the eve of the great drainage"
    },
    {
      "year": 1700,
      "why": "after Vermuyden and Hatfield, before the canals"
    },
    {
      "year": 1830,
      "why": "after canal mania and enclosure drainage, before the railways displace both"
    },
    {
      "year": 1900,
      "why": "the survey datum — the map the courses are traced *from*"
    }
  ]
}