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1. What is a Village?
Books
Village Buildings of Britain Handbook by Matthew Rice (Time Warner Books, 2003)
Old English Villages by Laurence Fleming (Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2001)
Village, Hamlet and Field: Changing Medieval Settlements in Central England by Carenza Lewis (Windgather Press, 2001)
The Most Beautiful Villages of Scotland by Hugh Palmer (Thames & Hudson, 2004)
Yesterday's Country Village by Henry Buckton (David & Charles, 2005)
Links
Dating buildings by architectural details
Using the National Archives to investigate your own home:
Looking at British Buildings
All about period buildings and how to care for them
The Georgian Group
2. The Medieval Village
Books
Life in a Medieval Village by Frances Gies ( HarperPerennial, 1991)
The Interior of the Medieval Village Church by Justin Kroesen (Peeters Publishers, 2005)
Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends by Richard Jones (Windgather Press, 2006)
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Photographs of Village Greens around Warwickshire can be seen here
Examples of villages with well-preserved greens:
Tudhoe Village County Durham
Finchingfield in Essex
3. Village Change in the Post-Medieval Period
Books
The Making of the English Village Harlow by Roberts B. (Longman, 1987)
Polyfocal settlement and the English village by Taylor C (paper published in the journal Medieval Archaeology Volume 25, pages 189-93, 1977)
Links
Guilden Morden in Cambridgeshire
4. Planned & Estate Villages
Books
Estate Villages by M A Havinden (Lund Humphries, 1966)
Links
Poundbury in Dorset
Ardington and Lockinge in Berkshire
Warter in East Yorkshire
Lowther in Cumbria
Balfour on Orkney
5. 'Industrial' Villages
Books
Villages in the Landscape by Rowley T (JM Dent, 1978)
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