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" The lost villages : "
Henry Buckton.
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BL
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1036581
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b790951
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Buckton, Henry.
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The lost villages : : in search of Britain's vanished communities /\ Henry Buckton.
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London ;New York :: I.B. Tauris,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (vii, 246 pages) :: illustrations, map
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0755622456
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: 0857714503
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: 1441600027
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: 9780755622450
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: 9780857714503
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: 9781441600028
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1845116712
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9781845116712
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction; 1. A Lost Village Lives Again; 2. From Riches to Rags; 3. The Power of Water; 4. A Sorely-Distressed Community; 5. The Cruel Sea; 6. Outpost of an Ancient World; 7. Beneath the Flood; 8. Quenching An English Thirst; 9. The Gathering Storm; 10. Casualties of War; 11. Broken Promises; 12. The Lost Valley; 13. A Land of Dragons and Kings; 14. Sliding Fortunes; 15. The Concrete and Clay Jungle; Acknowledgements; References and Further Reading; Index.
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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.
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Country life-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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Extinct cities-- Great Britain.
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Country life.
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Extinct cities.
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HISTORY.
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Rural conditions.
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Social cultural history.
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Wüstung
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Great Britain, Rural conditions, History, 20th century.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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941/.009734
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DA566.2.B79 2008eb
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