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COCKLEBURY A FARMING AREA AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE VALE OF WILTSHIRE

by Avice R. Wilson

Illustrated by Tobie Wallis; Henry Pedersen

Published by Phillimore. 1st. 1983

Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. Brown boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps.

Bumping to spine. Page edge browning, with foxing. Price-cut wrapper is faded to spine, with some grubby marks; a few edge nicks.

ISBN: 0850335108
Stock no. 2132581

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Contents

  • List of illustrations
  • List of maps and line drawings
  • Foreword by The Earl of Shelburne
  • Preface
  • Author's Note
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. The Beginning of the Story
  • 2. Saxon Conquest and Settlement
  • 3. 1066 to the Black Death
  • 4. To the threshold of Change
  • 5. The Beginning of Modern Farming at Cocklebury
  • 6. The 1600s: Social and Economic Change at Cocklebury
  • 7. The Eighteenth Century: Prosperity and Progress
  • 8. The Industrial World comes to Cocklebury
  • 9. The Twentieth Century at Cocklebury
  • References
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix
  • Index

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