Table of Contents:
  • Special features: The village year / Venetia Newall
  • The cottage garden / Tony Venison
  • Discovering village history / Rowland Parker
  • Trees and the village / Gerald Wilkinson
  • Village buildings / Richard Reid
  • The village church / John Physick
  • How villages got their names / Margaret Gelling
  • The village green / John Talbot White
  • Lost villages / W.G. Hoskins
  • The village at work / Christopher Hall
  • Village crafts / J. Geraint Jenkins
  • The squire and the manor house / Christopher Hall
  • The village then and now / Christopher Hall.