In the original dustsheet. Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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Traces the history and development of the English village, and describes the culture, traditions, and architecture of specific villages.

Richard Muir presents here an authoritative yet engaging history of the English village. He explores how these communities began, how they acquired their names, how they developed their characteristic forms, how they grew, and how – sometimes – they died.

Review: The book itself is a very interesting approach to the long evolution of “the” English village in its various forms. Freed of academic strictures the author presents a lot of information and expresses his interpretation of events and feelings. It is more readable for that.

Richard Muir (born 18 June 1943) is a British landscape archaeologist and author living outside Harrogate, Yorkshire. Muir was awarded his first degree and his doctorate by the University of Aberdeen where he is now an Honorary Research Fellow. He has been a lecturer in geography at several British and Irish universities.