by Tom Fort
Scott, Samuel Haslam, author of A Westmorland Village:
‘statesmen’ of Troutbeck, 299
Troutbeck Players, 300
life in Troutbeck, 302
would anyone go back to it?, 307
Sewell, Rev. William, vicar of Troutbeck, 302, 308
Sharp, Cecil, champion of English folk dance and music, 62–3
Sharp, Thomas, planner and author of The Anatomy of a Village, 148–9
Shepherd’s Life, A, book by W. H. Hudson, 50
Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, 68
Sherriff, R. C., playwright, author of Badger’s Green, 161–2
Shinfield, Berkshire, 312, 317
Siege of Troy, The, play performed by Troutbeck Players, 300
Silchester, Berkshire, Roman town, 22
Slad, Gloucestershire:
situation, 213
church, 214
June summer’s day in, 218
layout, 219
Woolpack pub, 220–2
life in, 222–3
as depicted by Laurie Lee, 224
housing pressure, 226
landscape saved, 227
Slad Brook, 226
Smethurst, William, editor of The Archers, 192
Smith, Rev. Sidney, attacks Game Laws, 144
Sonning, Berkshire, 328
Sonning Common, Oxfordshire:
unremarkable, 326
lack of history, 328
growth, 329
situation, 330–1
amenities, 331
parish council, 333–4
feud, 334
challenge, 335
ducks, 336
Neighbourhood Development Plan, 338–47
referendum, 346
affection, 348
virtues, 349
our house, 350, 356–7
charm, 357
Sonning Common History Society, 328
South Lakeland District Council, 305
South Oxfordshire District Council:
rejects housing applications, 339
muted opposition, 355
and NDPs, 365
Speenhamland, Berkshire, 44
Splendid Village, The, poem by Ebenezer Elliott, 45
Squire, English:
disappearance, 47
in praise of, 48
obsession with hunting, 49
position criticised by W. H. Hudson, 50
Storm, Alan, author of Family and Marine Community, 109
Storm, Jacob, Robin Hood’s Bay fisherman, 109
Storm, family of Robin Hood’s Bay, 109
Storm in the Village, novel by ‘Miss Read’, 128
Strange Land, book by Fraser Harrison, 153
Study of History, A, book by Arnold Toynbee, 199
Sturt, George, historian of Lower Bourne:
crucial text, 6–7
social position, 53
books, 53
Change in the Village, 53–6
village in decline, 148
Swallowfield, Berkshire, 320, 322
Tesco, supermarket chain:
at Bar Hill, 275
new store 276–7
what about? 278
Thomas, Wyndham, town planner, 272
Thompson, Flora, author of Lark Rise to Candleford:
description of parson, 144
depiction of Juniper Hill, 199
Lark Rise distorted by H. J. Massingham, 200
triumph, 202
creative impulse, 203
belonging, 203
village, 205
celebratory realism, 206
school, 209
Fringford, 210
if she could see now, 211–12
Thousand Laurie Lees, A, book by Adam Horovitz, 221
Three Fevers, novel by Leo Walmsley:
story, 110
Baytown, 111
sequels, 112
filmed, 113
climax, 119
Three Mile Cross, Berkshire:
Bowling Club, 310, 316
M4 motorway, 312
housing developments, 313
Mitford Fields, 313, 316–17
housebuilders, 313–14
bad luck, 317
Mary Russell Mitford, 318–24
layout in early nineteenth century, 322
W. H. Hudson, 323
commonplace, 324
lesson, 325
To the Manor Born, television comedy, 196
Tour de France 2014, 189
Town and Country Planning Act 1947, 271
Toynbee, Sir Arnold, author of A Study of History, 199
Trollope, Anthony, Victorian novelist, 143
Troutbeck, Cumbria:
landscape, 296
patterns of life, 298
‘statesmen’, 298–9
church, 299–300
amusements, 300
hunting, 301
farming, 302
George Browne, 303
Mayor’s Hunt, 304
Village Institute, 301–2
influence of Wainwright, 303
Mortal Man pub, 305–6
farming today, 306–7
glory, 308
beck, 309
Troutbeck Players, 300
Turner, W. J., poet, music critic and author of Exmoor Village:
as literary figure, 248
on Luccombe, 248–9, 252
Turn of the Tide, film, 112–13
Twyford, Berkshire:
location, 8
pubs and shops, 9
expansion, 12
Waitrose, 12–13
Cricket Club, 13
completely changed, 14
Tyne, river, 241
Uley Bitter, beer, 222
Ultimate Fishing, fishing tackle business in Chopwell, 240
Unwin, Raymond, architect and planner of New Earswick, 266, 269–70
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, composer, 63
Vestry committee:
emergence, 145
duties, 146
power eroded, 147
Vicar of Dibley, The, television comedy, 197–8
Victorian Village, A, book by Ralph Whitlock, 287
Village and village life:
why people like it, 351
sustaining, 352
my policy, 352–3
need for villages to grow, 353–4
diversity, 357–8
need to build at higher density, 360
motor car, 360
self-build, 361
house types, 361–2
bricks, 362–3
new ideas, 364
‘Village Bedrock’, article by H. J. Massingham, 64
Village Cricket, book by Gerald Howat, 160–1
Village halls:
impulse to build, 60
Balcombe, 61
Wolvercote, 61
Village school, 60
Village School, novel by ‘Miss Read’, 126–7
Villages, passim
Waide, W. Leathley, planning officer in Cambridgeshire:
new settlements, 271
site for Bar Hill, 271–2
evidence to planning inquiry, 272
concept, 276
Wainwright, Alfred, author of Lakeland guides:
cult of, 305
allegedly advises use of wirecutters on fences, 307
Walmsley, Leo, novelist:
family, 111
war service, 112
writes Three Fevers, 112
later life, 113
Waring, William, squire of Chelsfield, 123
Warren, C. Henry, author of England is a Village, 368–9
Water Babies, The, children’s story by Charles Kingsley, 138
Watkyns-Pitchford, Denys, writer and artist, 369
Weaver, Lawrence, campaigner for village halls, 60
Webb, Geoffrey, co-writer of The Archers, 194
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, 270
Westmorland Village,
A, book by S. H. Scott, 299
Whitlock, Edwin, farmer in Pitton:
shearing sheep, 286
as farmer, 287
old age, 290
Whitlock, Ralph, writer and farmer:
as writer, 286
huge output, 287
portrait of Pitton, 287–9
killing birds and animals, 289
difficulties, 290
view of village life, 291
farming families, 295
Wight, Alf (James Herriott), vet and writer:
fame and sales, 183
brand, 184
becomes vet, 185
timelessness, 186
pilgrims, 190
Williams, Raymond, critic and author of The Country and the City:
searching analysis, 6
effects of enclosure, 42
myth of modern England, 55
growing up, 150
‘the mutuality of the oppressed’, 154
metaphor of the backward escalator, 290
Windermere, lake in Lake District:
erections, 296
road from, 297
railway, 302, 308
Winsom, Gloucestershire, 95
Winter, Rev. Arthur, curate and cricketer, 160
Witney, Oxfordshire, 126, 127
Wokingham Borough Council, 315, 325
Wolvercote, Oxfordshire, 61
Women’s Institute (WI):
importance in village life, 61
attitude, 62
Woolpack, The, pub in Slad:
Laurie Lee, 218
place in village life, 220–2, 223
Wordsworth, William, poet:
walks through Troutbeck, 296
reveres Lakeland ‘statesmen’, 298
World We Have Lost, The, book by Peter Laslett, 39
Wrestling, Lakeland sport, 300
Wycliffe, John, Bible scholar, 141
Wylye, river in Wiltshire, 292
Yorkshire Village, book by Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby:
elegant local history, 186
morning in Askrigg, 186–7
change in Askrigg, 188
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