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The Lost Village: In Search of a Forgotten Rural England by Richard Askwith (Hardcover, 2008)

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'I've never been to London - I've been to Exeter. I only ever slept one night off the farm' Ada Tucker'There were wonderful old families around years ago. Good as gold. They'd do anything for anybody. The old ones just died off, you see, and people came down from up country. Some mixed in, some didn't' Cyril Keast'I know more people in the cemetery than I do in the village' Bill PartridgeThe idea of the village - unspoilt, unpretentious, unchanging and growing almost organically out of the landscape - is one of the most potent in the English imagination. Writers, artists and ordinary people have waxed lyrical on the theme for centuries, while today millions have left the cities in search of the rural idyll.Yet the village is plainly dying. The unchanging rhythms of village life, as experienced with little variations by generations, have vanished. But not without trace ... they exist in living memory. In the voices of men and women for whom the old ways were life-shaping realities.Richard Askwith, an award-winning writer and journalist, describes a journey in search of the quintessential English village, through dales and suburbs, down ancient lanes and estates. He captures the voices of poachers and gamekeepers, farmers and hunters, nurses and postmen, teachers and craftsmen, and demonstrates that, while the landscape more changed than we thought, the past is never so simple as we imagine.