Poacherland is the title chosen both for the website and for Trevor’s first book about his adopted County of Lincolnshire. Poacherland is not a guidebook, nor a history, nor a book of reference. It has elements of all those things but it is an eclectic look at one of Britain’s lesser known and appreciated counties. It is in part informative and part coffee-table volume.

As a non-native, Trevor takes a distanced view about Lincolnshire, finding in it both great appeal and irritating flaws. This assessment values heritage – as can be found in the many churches, in the somewhat underplayed towns and stately homes that dot the landscape, and in the notion of Bomber County, and in the notion of the landscape itself. He regrets the passing of much of the County’s wildlife, especially its birds, and the continual struggle through history to wrest from the land its natural heritage in favour of get-rich-quick schemes.

The County is now beginning to swell in population and in the building of infrastructure. How will this alter things? How will it change the people and their collective psyche?

Poacherland tries to balance the two great pivotal insights into the County’s past – the Roman Invasion and the birth and exploits of the Royal Air Force – and to value their respective roles in forming the character of the land and people, while facing up to the uncomfortable implications of both.

Poacherland is an affectionate glance, but not a rose-tinted assessment.