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Lost Villages of Sussex (Paperback)
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Lost Villages of Sussex (Paperback)
Series: Lost
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Throughout England there are thousands of lost or deserted
villages. Most were abandoned after the Black Death or other plague
epidemics, but some were lost to coastal erosion or the encroaching
sea, while others were resettled elsewhere when the livelihood upon
which the village relied disappeared and some were even
deliberately moved in later centuries on the whim of country house
owners. In this book author Alex Vincent surveys the lost villages
of Sussex. By examining old records and maps, the history of
excavations in the area, local archaeological archives and records
and the evidence of remaining buildings, ruins and old earthworks,
he has recorded over 140 deserted, shrunken and shifted villages in
East and West Sussex. He explores what remains on these sites
currently, including their churches, which often stand alone today;
now isolated farmhouses; ruins; fragments in later buildings and
the sites of old houses and streets that are often just bumps in a
field; pest houses and mass graves of plague victims; the
importance of place names as a record of previous inhabitation;
lost industries; and many more markers of a vanished world. This
fascinating picture of an important but often forgotten part of the
history of Sussex over the centuries will be of interest to all
those who live in this corner of south-east England or have known
it well.
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