Local History in England, Volume 582482860

accounts amateur Bishop borough Bristol building chapter class of record complete considerable Cornwall cottages countryside Deserted medieval village detail Devon directories Domesday Book early economic eighteenth century enclosure England English English local history especially evidence example Exeter existence fact family names farm farmsteads fieldwork Fincham give hamlets Hearth Tax Hearth Tax assessments historian houses hundred important kind King's Lynn land Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire local historian Lynn manor medieval Midlands nineteenth century Norfolk occupations onwards open fields Ordnance Survey original parish church parish history particular period place-names population printed probably probate inventories Public Record Office published references region registers River Welland rural Saxon settlement seventeenth century sixteenth century Somerset sources Stamford streets surnames survey survive Thirsk thirteenth century tion topography town twelfth century University of Leicester valuable village West Wigston Magna writing