Vanishing England
by P. H. Ditchfield
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Victoria Woosley, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Historic buildings -- England
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 14742
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14742
- Release Date
- January 20, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.VANISHING ENGLAND
- 2.THE ILLUSTRATIONS — BY — FRED ROE, R.I. — 1910
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — VANISHING ENGLAND
- 5.CHAPTER I — INTRODUCTION
- 6.CHAPTER II — THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ENGLAND
- 7.CHAPTER III — OLD WALLED TOWNS
- 8.CHAPTER IV — IN STREETS AND LANES
- 9.CHAPTER V — OLD CASTLES
- 10.CHAPTER VI — VANISHING OR VANISHED CHURCHES
- 11.CHAPTER VII — OLD MANSIONS
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — THE DESTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC REMAINS
- 13.CHAPTER IX — CATHEDRAL CITIES AND ABBEY TOWNS
- 14.CHAPTER X — OLD INNS
- 15.CHAPTER XI — OLD MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS
- 16.CHAPTER XII — CROSSES — WAYSIDE OR WEEPING CROSSES — MARKET CROSSES — BOUNDARY CROSSES — CROSSES AT CROSS-ROADS AND HOLY WELLS — SANCTUARY CROSSES — CROSSES AS GUIDE-POSTS
- 17.CHAPTER XIII — STOCKS, WHIPPING-POSTS, AND OLD-TIME PUNISHMENTS
- 18.CHAPTER XIV — OLD BRIDGES
- 19.CHAPTER XV — OLD HOSPITALS AND ALMSHOUSES
- 20.CHAPTER XVI — VANISHING FAIRS
- 21.CHAPTER XVII — THE DISAPPEARANCE OF OLD DOCUMENTS
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII — OLD CUSTOMS THAT ARE VANISHING
- 23.CHAPTER XIX — THE VANISHING OF ENGLISH SCENERY AND NATURAL BEAUTY
- 24.CHAPTER XX — CONCLUSION
- 25.INDEX
- 26.FOOTNOTES
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