The Lost Villages of England

Gloucester: Alan Sutton [0-86299-108-0] 1987. (Trade paperback) Very good plus. 445pp. Abbreviations, maps, fold-out map, illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, notes. There is a previous owner's book plate on the front inside cover. "Among existing villages in the English countryside are the sites of many others which have not been fortunate enough to survive, though six hundred years or so ago they were little different from their neighbours. Professor Beresford has located these lost villages and he describes the occasion of their depopulation and the character of those who destroyed them.... A classic pioneering study which is an important contribution to economic history and historical geography, as well as a guidebook to an unexplored part of the English landscape". Locale: England; United Kingdom. (History--England, Archaeology, Economic History, Historical Geography--England, History--England, Villages).