HAMSTEAD MARSHALL
Craven Country: the Story of Hamstead Marshall
Craven Country: the Story of Hamstead Marshall is no longer in print, but the text is now available here, with some new illustrations and revisions to the 1996 edition. Copyright remains with the author, Penelope Stokes.
Contents

Chapter 1 : A Wessex landscape

Chapter 2 : Romans, Saxons and Normans

Chapter 3 : Marshalls and castles

Chapter 4 : Lords of the manor of Hamstead Marshall 1066-1620

Chapter 5 : Late medieval and Tudor Hamstead

Chapter 6 : William Craven: a soldier of considerable fortune

Chapter 7 : The warrior at court, and the honours bestowed upon him

Chapter 8 : A mansion fit for a queen

Chapter 9 : Ruined splendour

Chapter 10 : The village in Stuart and Georgian times

Chapter 11 : The Beautiful Lady Craven

Chapter 12 : The Sham Castle and the canal through Hamstead

Chapter 13 : The earldom revived

Chapter 14 : Enclosure of the commons and a fire at the Mill

Chapter 15 : Louisa, Lady Craven: a countess in residence

Chapter 16 : Life, death, disease and the price of bread

Chapter 17 : The Machine Riots of 1830

Chapter 18 : Church and chapel to the 1930s

Chapter 19 : Ann Plumb and John Louis

Chapter 20 : Earning a Victorian living and simple pleasures

Chapter 21 : The White Hart, Hamstead School and the village hall

Chapter 22 : Craven lordship 1850-1950

Chapter 23 : The twentieth-century village to 1939

Chapter 24 : Wartime

Chapter 25 : The post-war village: rural bliss and blight

Chapter 26 : Craven tragedy

Chapter 27 : Hamstead today

Gazetteer : A-Z of houses, roads and places with historical description and pictures


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12 June 2008
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