English Villages
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About This Book
Reverend Peter Hampson Ditchfield (1854-1930) was the author of Our English Villages (1889), Old English Sports (1891), Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895), Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time (1896), English Villages (1901/06), The Parish Clerk (1907), Memorials of Old London (2v/1908), and Vanishing England (1910). "To write a complete history of any village is one of the hardest literary labours which anyone can undertake. The soil is hard, and the crop after the expenditure of much toil is often very scanty. In many cases the records are few and difficult to discover, buried ami...
Chapters (54)(click to expand)
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- ENGLISH VILLAGES
- P.H. DITCHFIELD M.A., F.S.A.
- TO MY WIFE
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II
- PREHISTORIC REMAINS
- CHAPTER III
- TUMULI OR BARROWS
- CHAPTER IV
- PIT AND PILE DWELLINGS
- CHAPTER V
- CROMLECHS, CAMPS, AND EARTHWORKS
- CHAPTER VI
- ROMAN RELICS
- CHAPTER VII
- ANGLO-SAXON VILLAGES
- CHAPTER VIII
- SAXON RELICS
- CHAPTER IX
- ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE
- CHAPTER X
- NORMAN VILLAGES AND THE DOMESDAY BOOK
- CHAPTER XI
- NORMAN CASTLES
- CHAPTER XII
- MONASTERIES
- CHAPTER XIII
- THE MANOR-HOUSE
- CHAPTER XIV
- PARISH CHURCHES
- CHAPTER XV
- CHURCH PLATE
- CHAPTER XVI
- MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES AND BRASSES
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE PARISH CHEST
- CHAPTER XVIII
- STAINED GLASS, TILES, AND MURAL PAINTINGS
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHURCH BELLS
- CHAPTER XX
- THE MEDIAEVAL VILLAGE
- CHAPTER XXI
- VILLAGE SPORTS AND PASTIMES
- CHAPTER XXII
- THE VILLAGE INN
- CHAPTER XXIII
- VILLAGE SUPERSTITIONS AND FOLKLORE
- APPENDIX
- BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO PAROCHIAL HISTORY
- INDEX
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