Deserted Villages Revisited

Deserted Villages Revisited
Author: Christopher Dyer
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781905313792

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.

An Atlas of Northamptonshire

An Atlas of Northamptonshire
Author: Tracey Partida
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-01-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1782970991

An Atlas of Northamptonshire presents an historical atlas of the greater part of Northamptonshire (the first quarter having been published as An Atlas of Rockingham Forest). It presents in map form the results of fieldwork and documentary research undertaken since the mid-1960s to map the landscape of the whole of Northamptonshire prior to enclosure by Parliamentary Act. This is the first time a whole county has been completely studied in this way, and the first time a whole county has had an accurate view of its medieval landscape with details of the medieval fields, woods, pastures and meadows which have been mapped by ground-survey of archaeological remains confirmed where possible from aerial photographs and early maps. It is also the first time a county has been mapped showing all pre-parliamentary enclosure providing comprehensive data for the difficult theme of early enclosure in a midland county. Complete relevant historic map sources are listed, many in private possession and not lodged with county record offices. Settlements are discussed based on the detailed mapping of every house depicted on historic maps as wells the extent of earthworks, which provides much new evidence relative to settlement development in the Midlands. As well as being highly relevant for anyone studying medieval settlements and enclosure, it illustrates how GIS can be used to present a very large amount of historical and landscape data for any region. The clearly laid out maps in full colour throughout contain an immense amount of data which together provide a fascinating new portrait of this historic county.

Commoners

Commoners
Author: J. M. Neeson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521567749

Challenging the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization, this text shows that common right and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages. Their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted a pervasive sense of loss.

Faxton

Faxton
Author: Bryan Holden
Publisher: Damaris Publishing
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2008
Genre: Extinct cities
ISBN: 9780955313028

The Northamptonshire village of Faxton prospered for close to a thousand years. First recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book, its name derives from the Norse Fakr (a personal name) and the Saxon Tun (farm), meaning Fakr's farm. Faxton: The Lost Village paints a picture of this small farming community from its early history to its decline and eventual abandonment in the 20th century.

The Lost Villages of England

The Lost Villages of England
Author: Maurice Warwick Beresford
Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

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.