VANISHING ENGLAND***
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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 Trophy
Old Shop, formerly standing in Cliffe High Street, Lewes
Paradise Square, Banbury
Norden's Chart of the River Ore and Suffolk Coast
Disused Mooring-post on bank of the Rother, Rye
Old Houses built on the Town Wall, Rye
Bootham Bar, York
Half-timbered House with early Fifteenth-century Doorway, King's Lynn, Norfolk
The "Bone Tower," Town Walls, Great Yarmouth
Row No. 83, Great Yarmouth
The Old Jetty, Gorleston
Tudor House, Ipswich, near the Custom House
