Download or read book The Lost Villages of England written by Maurice Warwick Beresford and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locating 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.
Download or read book The Lost Villages of Medieval England written by Maurice Beresford and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Villages of England written by Leigh Driver and published by New Holland Publishers Uk Limited. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases 57 of England's most fascinating 'lost' villages, illustrated with full-color, modern day photographs and archive pictures and documents.
Download or read book The Lost Villages of Britain written by Richard Muir and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deserted Medieval Villages written by Maurice Warwick Beresford and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abandoned Villages written by Stephen Fisk and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely ruined church, mysterious bumps in a field, stone walls visible on the shoreline of a reservoir in high summer. All these are signs of settlements abandoned over the years, and this book is the perfect guide to these intriguing sites.
Download or read book Ghost Towns in England written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Deserted medieval villages in England, List of lost settlements in the United Kingdom, Skinnand, Imber, Oxnead, List of lost settlements in Hertfordshire, Statfold, Erringham chapel, Seacourt, Tyneham, Cuckmere Valley, Tottington, Norfolk, Hallsands, Godwick, Asterleigh, List of lost settlements in Northamptonshire, Eaton Hastings, Billingborough, List of lost settlements in Norfolk, Langford, Norfolk, Wolfhampcote, Wharram Percy, Babingley, Hound Tor, Derwent, Derbyshire, Waterton, Lincolnshire, Wykeham, Lincolnshire, Alethorpe, Stanford, Norfolk, Knaptoft, Clopton, Cambridgeshire, Sturston, Norfolk, Gainsthorpe, Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire, Ashopton, Martinsthorpe, Ingarsby, Cestersover, Cowlam, Alton, Leicestershire, Barforth, Balsdean, Snap, Wiltshire, Upper Ditchford, Nash, Telford and Wrekin, Stretton Baskerville. Excerpt: This list of lost settlements in the United Kingdom includes deserted medieval villages (DMVs), shrunken villages, abandoned villages and other settlements known to have been lost, depopulated or significantly reduced in size over the centuries. There are estimated to be as many as 3,000 DMVs in England. Grid references are given, where known. Agden Side, near Agden Reservoir Phoside, near Glossop. Toxall near Macclesfield see also the lost villages of the Romney Marsh for more detail For former villages whose sites were in Berkshire until the 1974 county boundary changes please see the Berkshire section, above. Monmouthshire Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire. Originally a small farming community situated 9 miles (14 km) south of Lincoln and 11.5 miles (19 km) northwest of Sleaford, it once boasted a church and several houses. It was hit hard, however, by the English Civil War of 1642-1646, when the church fell into ruins. Today only fields and one deserted...
Download or read book Shadowlands A Journey Through Britain s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages written by Matthew Green and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 A “brilliant London historian” (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before—through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the reader to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks. A stunning and original excavation of Britain’s untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.
Download or read book The Lost Villages written by Henry Buckton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Britain there are more than 3,000 lost villages once-thriving communities that time and fortune have reduced to ivy-clad remnants and weather-worn ruins. Echoes of a former age, they evoke a natural curiosity as to who lived in them, what caused their decline. Bestselling author Henry Buckton goes in search of some of the Britain's more recent lost villages: Hallsands in Devon, swept away in a violent storm; the communities of Vatersay and Mingulay, in Scotland, victims to the changing fortunes of the local laird; and the picture-perfect village of Imber in Wiltshire, requisitioned for the nation in time of war but never given back. Combining rare photographs and the memories of those who knew the villages, the author provides a timely account of communities whose stories would otherwise soon be lost for ever.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Medieval Villages Currently Inhabited in Europe written by Jesús Fernández Fernández and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological interventions in European rural settlements have largely focussed on villages abandoned during the last millennium. Most hamlets and villages of medieval origin remain inhabited, however, and excavations have been scarce. This book details excavations of inhabited sites in the UK, the Netherlands, France, Scandinavia and Spain.
Download or read book Deserted Villages Revisited written by Christopher Dyer and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembling leading experts on the subject, this account explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of thousands of villages and smaller settlements in England and Wales between 1340 and 1750. By revisiting the deserted villages, this breakthrough study addresses questions that have plagued archaeologists, geographers, and historians since the 1940s--including why they were deserted, why some villages survived while others were abandoned, and who was responsible for their desertion--offering a series of exciting insights into the fate of these fascinating sites.
Download or read book The Lost Village written by Richard Askwith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of the village - unspoilt, unpretentious, unchanging and growing almost organically out of the landscape - is one of the most potent in the English imagination. Writers, artists and ordinary people have waxed lyrical on the theme for centuries, while today millions have left the cities in search of the rural idyll. Yet the village is plainly dying. The unchanging rhythms of village life, as experienced with little variations by generations, have vanished. But not without trace ... they exist in living memory. In the voices of men and women for whom the old ways were life-shaping realities. Richard Askwith, an award-winning writer and journalist, describes a journey in search of the quintessential English village, through dales and suburbs, down ancient lanes and estates. He captures the voices of poachers and gamekeepers, farmers and hunters, nurses and postmen, teachers and craftsmen, and demonstrates that, while the landscape more changed than we thought, the past is never so simple as we imagine.
Download or read book The Lost Villages of England written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lost Villages of England by Maurice Beresford written by Maurice Warwick Beresford and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England 1272 1485 written by Ronald H. Fritze and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the chronological setting for many of Shakespeare's plays, various swashbuckling novels from Sir Walter Scott's to Robert Louis Stevenson's, and such Hollywood films as Braveheart, late Medieval England is superficially well known. Yet its true complexity remains elusive, locked in the covers of specialized monographs and journal articles. In over 300 entries written by 80 scholars, this book makes the factual information and historical interpretations of the era readily available. Covering political, military, religious, and constitutional subjects as well as social and economic topics, the volume is easy to use, comprehensive, and authoritative. It provides a useful resource for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and educated laymen. Rightly characterized as an age of crisis, the 14th century saw the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, the Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism of the Western Church. All placed great stresses on English society, aggravating old problems and creating new ones. In the late Middle Ages, parliament became an important element in English government; Cambridge and Oxford universities attained European-wide reputations; and general literacy increased. The Church remained a paramount religious, political, and social institution, but its independence and intellectual monopoly slipped. The entries in this book synthesize recent scholarship on these and other historical events. While emphasizing political, religious, constitutional and military topics, the book also provides brief introductions to social, economic, cultural, and intellectual topics. It is a valuable guide for those wishing to understand this complex, tumultuous, and until recently, poorly understood era.
Download or read book Medieval England written by M. W. Beresford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses in detail some aspects of life in medieval England still to be seen in the landscape. The perspective of the air photograph conveys a fresh understanding of the physical setting of medieval society, of the interaction between communities and the land upon which they settled and of the varying pattern of the social and economic fabric of the country.
Download or read book The Deserted Medieval Villages of Hertfordshire written by Kenneth Rutherford Davis and published by University of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
