by Tom Fort
detail, 250–1
photographs, 251
offence caused, 255, 262
Exmoor Village, television series:
presented by Dan Farson, 256
stilted interviews, 257
best sense, 258
Eye and Dunsden, parish in south Oxfordshire, 329
Eystons, East Hendred family, 47
Family and a Village, A, book by Ralph Whitlock, 287, 289
Family and Marine Community, study of Robin Hood’s Bay by Alan Storm, 109
Farley, Wiltshire, 287
Farnham, Surrey:
and the Bournes, 52
George Sturt’s father, 53
loathed by George Sturt, 55
Farson, Dan, journalist:
presents programmes on Luccombe, 256
interviews Nina Masel, 257
accosts Luccombe resident, 261
Folk Dance Society, 63–3
Fossebridge, Gloucestershire, 95
Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, 68
Foxhunting in the Lakeland Fells, book by Richard Clapham, 304
Foxton, Cambridgeshire:
rebuilding, 37
location and layout, 68
Roman villa, 71
and Common Man, 72
pre-medieval, 72–3
Roman, 73
medieval, 74
mobility, 75
strife, 76
Brook, 76–7
harvest, 78
middle-class takeover, 79
village life, 80
today, 82–4
French, Dawn, actor:
Vicar of Dibley, 197
Lark Rise to Candleford, 198
Fringford, Oxfordshire:
as Candleford Green, 210
expansion, 210–11
loss of charm, 211
Fringford through the Ages, book by Martin Greenford, 211
Future of the Village, The, book by Thomas Sharp, 155
Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, 116
Gallowstree Common, Oxfordshire, 329
Game Laws, savagery of, 49–50
Gardiner, Rolf, campaigner for traditional rural life, 370
Garstang, Professor Walter, zoologist, 112
Gateshead Council, 238, 240
General Strike of 1926, 232
Gibbs, Joseph Arthur, author of A Cotswold Village:
lives in Ablington, 92
early death, 92
A Cotswold Village, 92–5
village types, 93
Merrie England, 94
Cotswold dream world, 95
Gladman, land development company:
Foxton, 82–3
Slad, 227
likes of, 347
threat of, 356
Goldsmith, Oliver, author of The Deserted Village, 4–5, 266
Goltho, Lincolnshire:
Church, 17
excavation, 19
rebuilding, 20
abandonment, 21
Gough, Richard, author of The Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle:
home, 167
character of book, 169
method, 170–1
defends himself, 172
wider world, 174
pride in family, 175
Gray, Thomas, author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 4
Grazeley, Berkshire, 312
Grazeley Court, home of Mitfords, 318
Greenwood, Martin, author of Fringford through the Ages, 211
Grey Duster, trout fishing fly, 242
Grove, Valerie, biographer of Laurie Lee, 216–17
Haggard, H. Rider, author of Rural England, 57
Hanmer, family of Myddle, 178
Harcourt, Lord, owner of Stanton Harcourt, 264
Hardie, Keir, first Labour Party MP, 233
Hardy, Thomas, novelist and author of ‘The Dorsetshire Labourer’, 6
Harrison, Rev. Charles Sawkins, vicar of Cottisford, 210
Harrison, Fraser, author of Strange Land, 153
Hartley, Marie, author (with Joan Ingilby) of Yorkshire Village, 186–8
Heart of England, The, book by Ivor Brown, 66
Hellicar, Patrick, expert on life of ‘Miss Read’, 132, 135–6
Hendred House, East Hendred, 47
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 332
Hey, Professor David, author of An English Community: Myddle under the Tudors and Stuarts, 174
Hickson, Joan, actor, 196
Hinde, John, photographer of Luccombe, 251, 261
Hinton, James, author of The Mass Observers, 248
Hirst, Damien, artist, 221
Hodge and his Masters, book by Richard Jefferies, 6
Hoggart, Thomas ‘Auld’, playwright of Troutbeck, 300
Holbrook, David, poet and cultural commentator, on Bar Hill, 276
Holland, Hannen and Cubitt, builders of Bar Hill, 272–5
‘Homes Fit for Heroes’, 59
Homestead Ltd, builders of Chelsfield Park, 123, 133
Horner, Somerset, 245, 246
Horovitz, Adam, author of A Thousand Laurie Lees, 221
Horovitz, Michael and Frances, poets living in Slad, 221
Hoskins, W. G., geographer:
Great Rebuilding, 37
denounces planners, 149–50
Houghton, Norfolk, 264
Housebuilders:
methods, 314
types of houses, 314–15
deadening uniformity, 315
defence, 316
Housing Act 1919, 59
Howard, Ebenezer, Garden City visionary, 270
Howat, Gerald, cricket historian:
living in North Moreton, 160
on village cricket, 160–1
connection with Moreton CC, 162
Hudson, W. H., writer:
the Squire, 50
liking for Our Village, 322
dislike of Reading, 323
Hunting in Lakeland, 300–1, 303–4
Huxley, Aldous, novelist and author of Brave New World, 315
Ilchester, Earl of, owner of Pitton, 288
Ingilby, Joan, author (with Marie Hartley) of Yorkshire Village, 186–8
Inkberrow, Worcestershire:
twin of Ambridge, 192
tourists, 194
In Search of England, book by H. V. Morton, 64–5
Iron Age:
proto-villages, 22
fields, 23
Irving, Washington, American writer, 47
Ivey, Desiree, Mass Observation researcher in Luccombe, 249
Jefferies, Richard, countryside writer and author of Hodge and his Masters, 6
Joseph Rowntree Trust, work in New Earswick, 269, 270
Joyce, George, Troutbeck schoolmaster, 302–3
Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, original for Lark Rise:
depiction by Flora Thompson, 199
state of want, 204
history, 204–5
lack of amenities, 205
people, 206
setting, 206–7
closure of pub, 208
social life, 208–9
Keith, Professor W. J., author of The Rural Tradition, 321
Kelly’s Directory 1907, 329
Kidmore End, Oxfordshire, 332
Kingsley, Rev. Charles, Rector of Eversley:
becomes curate, 138
as rector, 139
work in parish, 140–1
as reformer, 144
on Miss Mitford, 320
Kirkstone Pass, Cumbria, 308
Kitchen, Fred, author of Brother to the Ox, 67
Lane, Margaret, biographer of Flora Thompson, 203
Lark Rise to Candleford, trilogy of novels by Flora Thompson:
parson in, 144
adapted for television, 197–9
inspired title, 201
introductions by H. J. Massingham and Richard Mabey, 201
triumph, 202–3
celebratory realism, 206
&nbs
p; Laslett, Peter, Cambridge historian and author of The World We Have Lost, 39
Last Chronicle of Barset, The, novel by Anthony Trollope, 143
Latham, Jim, journalist in Rippingdale, 194–5
Lawson, Jack, Labour politician, 234
Lawson, Will, NUM President and Labour MP, 233
Lee, Jessy, daughter of Laurie, 216, 218
Lee, Kathy, wife of Laurie, 218
Lee, Laurie, poet and travel writer:
sets Cider With Rosie in Slad, 213
window in church, 214
return to Slad, 216
as poet, 217
difficult, 218
end of childhood, 224
the show, 225
beauty of language, 226
power of his pen, 227
Letchworth, Garden City, 270
Localism Act, 338
Lord, Graham, biographer of James Herriot, 183
Lost Village: Rural Life between the Wars, book by Ralph Whitlock 287–91
Lost Village, The: In Search of a Forgotten Rural England, book by Richard Askwith, 155–6
Lower Bourne, Surrey:
decay, 6–7
character, 51–3
effects of enclosure, 54
ancient virtues, 55
Entertainment Club, failure of 60
Luccombe, Somerset:
as classic village, 243
composition, 243–4
church, 246
Mass Observation, 247
overall picture, 249
photographs, 251
make-believe, 252
history, 252–3
Acland family, 252–4
on television, 255
stag-hunting, 259
farming, 260
and National Trust, 253–4, 260–1
offence caused, 262
birth of, 263
Lucky Jim, novel by Kingsley Amis, 94
Luddites, 45
Lust, Sir Robert, publisher, 126
Lytton, Neville, Earl of Lytton, artist, 61
M4 motorway, 312
Mabey, Richard, countryside writer and biographer of Flora Thompson:
sympathetic study of Flora Thompson’s life, 199
introduction to Lark Rise to Candleford, 201
astute judgement, 205–6
Macaulay, Lord, historian, on defects of squirearchy, 48
McCrum, Robert, writer, on Laurie Lee, 217
MacKenzie, Compton, author, 248
Major, Sir John, British prime minister, 86
Making of the English Landscape, The, book by W. G. Hoskins, 149
Man’s Life, A, autobiography by Jack Lawson, 234
Marple, Miss, genteel amateur detective created by Agatha Christie, 196
Masel, Nina, Mass Observation researcher, 249, 257
Mason, Ted, co-writer of Dick Barton and The Archers, 194
Massingham, H. J., countryside writer:
central theme, 63
rural types, 64
Cotswold myth, 96
venom, 97
and Flora Thompson, 201
member of Kinship in Husbandry, 369
Mass Observation (MO):
ambition, 247
method, 248
Luccombe, 248–51
Mass Observers, The, book by James Hinton, 248
Milne, A. A., poet, 368
Milord, Sir Humphrey, head of Oxford University Press, 199
Milton, Dorset, 264
Milton Abbas, Dorset, 264
Mitford, Doctor, father of Miss Mitford:
parasitic monster, 318
devious, 319
leech 320
Mitford, Mary, author of Our Village:
honoured in Three Mile Cross, 313
home, 318
family fortunes, 318–19
as national treasure, 319
in old age, 320
sample, 321–2
cottage, 324–5
Moment of War, A, memoir by Laurie Lee, 217
Moore, John, countryside writer, 97
Moreton Cricket Club:
founded, 158
today, 162–3
Morris, William, on Bibury, 97
Mortal Man, The, pub in Troutbeck, 301, 305–6
Morton, H. V., author of In Search of England:
inspired, 64
myth-making, 65
paradisial version of rural life, 66
Cotswold myth, 96
Mucking, Essex, 24
Muir, Richard, historian and archaeologist, 15
Myddle, Shropshire:
pew plan, 169–71
social hierarchy, 170
Acherley family, 171–2
bad hats, 172–3
poisoning, 173
excessive drinking, 174
sense of community, 175
changes, 176
new building, 177
today, 178
Nadder, river in Wiltshire, 292
National Childbirth Trust, 332
Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP):
right to draw up, 338
work on Sonning Common’s, 339–42
developers, 342–4
disgrace, 345
Nether Wallop, Hampshire, 196
Newbottle, Tyne and Wear, 228–9
Newcastle Chronicle, newspaper, 233
New Earswick, model village near York:
genesis, 266
design, 267
facilities, 267–8
housing for ordinary people, 269
demand, 270
New Lanark, model village, 265
Nichols, Beverley, author and journalist, 65–6
Norman invasion, 3
Northchapel, Sussex, 60–1
North Moreton, Oxfordshire:
location, 158
cricket club, 159–60, 162–3
Northstowe, Cambridgeshire, 280–1
Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire, 264, 265
Old Village Life, book by Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, 48
Open-field system, 45–6
Orpington, Greater London, 120, 123
Our Village, book by Miss Mitford:
published 1824, 319
claims on behalf of, 321
sample, 321–2
admired by W. H. Hudson, 322
new edition, 324
cottages featured, 324–5
Oxfordshire County Council, 366
Page, Robin, farmer, journalist and broadcaster, 151–2
Painswick, Gloucestershire, 220
Palmer, William, Berkshire philanthropist, 323, 324
Parker, Barry, architect of New Earswick, 266, 269
Parker, Rowland, historian of Foxton:
moves to village, 68
writes Cottage on the Green, 71
writes The Common Stream, 71
story of the village, 72
Brook, 74–7
detail, 75
harvest, 78
observes village life, 80
wise and humane, 83
Parson:
medieval, 141–2
improved social standing, 142–3
influence in village, 143
complacent Toryism, 144
erosion of power, 145
Partridge, Bill, Luccombe farmer, 258, 260
Peake, Harold, archaeologist and author of The English Village, 148
Pearson, Johnny, composer of theme for All Creatures Great and Small, 182
Pheasant Tail, trout fishing fly, 242
Pinero, Sir Arthur, playwright, 61
Pitton, Wiltshire:
setting, 282
fifty years ago, 283
forest, 285
sheep, 285–6
Whitlock family, 286–7
described by Ralph Whitlock, 287
great events, 288
diversions, 289
today, 291
environment degraded, 292
village thriving, 293
housing, 294
rupture between past and present, 295
Pontefract, Ella, collaborator with Marie Hartley in Askrigg, 187
Poor Law of 1834, 44
Porlock, Somerset, 243, 245
Port Sunlight, model village, 270
Potterne, Wiltshire, 56–7
Priestley, J. B., novelist and travel writer:
on the ruin of England, 65
reviews Leo Walmsley’s Three Fevers, 112
Problems of Village Life, The, book by Ernest Bennett, 56–7
Prothero, Rowland Edmund, Lord Ernle, agricultural historian, 46
Queen’s Head Hotel, Troutbeck, 304–5
Radburn Principle, of town planning, 272–3
Radipole, Dorset, location for first enclosure, 35
Ravenscar, North Yorkshire:
cycling to, 105
view from, 106
cliffs towards, 108
in Three Fevers, 118
‘Read, Miss’ (Dora Saint), chronicler of village life:
comes to Chelsfield, 124
walk to school, 125
as teacher, 126
writes Village School, 126
origin of, 126–7
view of village, 128
and parents, 132
talk about, 135–6
and Flora Thompson, 203
Reading, Berkshire:
as depicted by Miss Mitford, 319
hated by W. H. Hudson, 322
stupendous octopus, 323
Reformation, 170
Ribena, blackcurrant cordial, 193
Rippingdale, Lincolnshire:
Henry Burtt, 193
The Bull, 194
attempt to supplant Inkberrow as real-life Ambridge, 194–5
The Bull reopened, 195
Robin Hood’s Bay, North Yorkshire:
view of, 105
village, 106
fishing, 107–9
boats, 107–9
in Three Fevers, 110–13
out of season, 114–15
life, 115–16
bowling club, 117
no one left, 118
and Troutbeck, 308
Roman occupation of Britain, 22–4
Rousby, Edwards, squire of Cottisford, 209
Rowlands, Eric, historian of Luccombe, 259–60
Rowling, J. K., author of The Casual Vacancy, 129
Rowntree, Joseph, confectioner and philanthropist, 266
Royal Institute of British Architects, 364
Rural England, book by H. Rider Haggard, 57
‘Rural Life in England’, article by Washington Irving, 46
Rural Tradition, The, book by W. J. Keith, 322
Russell, Edward, Lord Orford, builder of Chippenham Park, 264
Rydal, lake in the Lake District, 296
Sackville, Sir Thomas, builder of Bibury Court, 90
Salisbury Plain:
south-eastern edge, 282
declining wildlife, 292
Salt, Sir Titus, creator of model village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire, 265
Saxon settlements, 23–4
Scarborough, North Yorkshire:
railway to Whitby, 103
Borough Council, 103
Scott, J. Robertson, author of England’s Green and Pleasant Land, 66