The lost villages of EnglandThis unique and pioneering study locates the sites of England's "lost" villages, describing 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 plus a gazetteer listing the villages by county. An essential guide for all local historians and students of the medieval and early modern periods. |
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Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables xxxv | 17 |
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 Commission corn cottages Court crofts decay demesne depopulated villages depopulating enclosure deserted villages destroyed destruction documents Domesday Book Domesday village earlier early earthworks East Lilling East Riding enclosed England evicted evidence excavation Exchequer farm fifteenth century furlongs Gainsthorpe grass hamlet Henry Henry VIII 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 Northumberland Nottinghamshire open fields Oxfordshire parish park pasture plague plough poll tax population records relief reported in 1517 Rolls seen settlement sheep shire shrunken sixteenth statute street Stretton Baskerville suggest survey surviving Table tax lists tax quota tenants tion town township Tudor villeins vills wapentakes Warwickshire Warws West Wharram Percy Wilstrop wool Yorkshire
Bibliographic information
| Title | The lost villages of England History handbooks Sutton History Handbooks |
| Author | Maurice Warwick Beresford |
| Edition | revised, illustrated |
| Publisher | Sutton, 1998 |
| Length | 445 pages |
| Subjects | › › Cities and towns, Medieval Cities and towns, Medieval/ England Extinct cities Great Britain Historic sites History / Europe / Great Britain History / General Social Science / Sociology / Rural Villages Villages/ England/ History |
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