The Lost Villages of EnglandLocating the sites of England's lost villages, this book describes the occasion of their depopulation and the character of those who destroyed them. Aerial photographs and ground plans of characteristic sites are included, together with maps to show the local distribution of lost villages. There is also a gazetteer, listing the villages by county. The text combines the study of local, social and economic history, geography and domestic architecture. |
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List of Illustrations and Tables | xxxv |
PART | 25 |
THE FABRIC OF THE VILLAGE | 39 |
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acres air photograph arable Archaeological assessed Beresford Bittesby Black Death Buckinghamshire cartulary Chancery chapel Chapter church Commission corn cottages Court crofts decay depopulated villages depopulating enclosure Deserted Medieval Village deserted villages destroyed destruction documents earlier early earthworks East Lilling East Riding enclosed England evicted evidence excavation Exchequer farm fifteenth century furlongs Gainsthorpe grass hamlet History Hoskins households in 1428 hundred Inquiry Inquisition John Rous Kiplingcotes land landscape late Lay Subsidy Leicestershire Lincolnshire lord lost villages manor house medieval village messuages Midland counties names neighbours Norfolk North Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire open fields Oxfordshire parish park pasture plague plough poll tax population profits records relief reported in 1517 Rolls ruined seen settlement sheep shire shrunken sixteenth street Stretton Baskerville strips suggested survey surviving Table tax lists tax quota tenants tion town township Tudor villeins vills vills wapentakes Warwickshire Warws West Wharram Percy Wilstrop wool Yorkshire