Medieval villages in the Eastern High Weald 1250-1750 : Part 2: the houses described
Martin, David2016
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Unlike the rest of England, where new villages were rarely formed after 1200, in the Weald of Kent and Sussex there is no clear evidence for the prescence of any village before that date, and even then they were scarce until modern times. The success of the villages which developed was closely tied to their position on highways, allowing them to draw traders from their economic hinterland to serve their neighbouring communities. Even though the impulse towards market growth had lost its force by the fifteenth century, the size and prosperity did not decline because they also developed as centres of craft production. This prosperity still manifests itself in the quality and extraordinarily high survival of medieval houses in the villages of the High Weald of Kent and Sussex.
Main title:
Medieval villages in the Eastern High Weald 1250-1750 : Part 2: the houses described / David Martin, Barbara Martin, Christopher Whittick, Mark Gardiner and Jane Briscoe.
Imprint:
Burgess Hill : Domtom, 2016.
Collation:
132 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
ISBN:
9781906070595 (pbk)
Dewey class:
942.252
Language:
English
BRN:
2052615