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Title: Vanishing England

Author: P. H. Ditchfield

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Language: en

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VANISHING ENGLAND

The Book

by

P. H. DITCHFIELD
M.A., F.S.A., F.H.S.L., F.R.HIST.S.

The Illustrations by FRED ROE, R.I.

Methuen & Co. Ltd.
36 Essex Street W.C.
London

1910

[Illustration: The George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset]

[Illustration: Canopy over Doorway of Buckingham House, Portsmouth]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. INTRODUCTION

II. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ENGLAND

III. OLD WALLED TOWNS

IV. IN STREETS AND LANES

V. OLD CASTLES

VI. VANISHING OR VANISHED CHURCHES

VII. OLD MANSIONS

VIII. THE DESTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC REMAINS

IX. CATHEDRAL CITIES AND ABBEY TOWNS

X. OLD INNS

XI. OLD MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS

XII. OLD CROSSES

XIII. STOCKS AND WHIPPING-POSTS

XIV. OLD BRIDGES

XV. OLD HOSPITALS AND ALMSHOUSES

XVI. VANISHING FAIRS

XVII. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OLD DOCUMENTS

XVIII. OLD CUSTOMS THAT ARE VANISHING

XIX. THE VANISHING OF ENGLISH SCENERY

XX. CONCLUSION

INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The George Inn, Norton St. Philip, Somerset (Frontispiece)

Canopy over Doorway of Buckingham House, Portsmouth (Title page)

Rural Tenements, Capel, Surrey

Detail of Seventeenth-century Table in Milton's Cottage,
Chalfont St. Giles

Seventeenth-century