id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 9197 Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson) English Villages .txt text/plain 74503 3789 73 Eleven years ago my little book on the antiquities of English villages of ancient parish churches, frequently conducted by men ignorant of the The manor-house--Prehistoric people--Later inhabitants--Saxons--Village to one's self the old features of village life in bygone times. above the trees the church, the centre of the old village life, both to the Saxon and early Norman times, when the lord of the manor had story to tell, of the old coaching days, and of the great people who used manner of men lived in the old cave dwellings, or constructed their rude Our English villages contain many examples of Roman buildings. Often there stands near the village church an old stone The early Saxon clergy lived in monasteries, where they had a church our beautiful old churches still retain relics of the past which time church was very similar to the old building wherein the villagers still ./cache/9197.txt ./txt/9197.txt