The English Village Explained (Trevor Yorke)

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The English Village Explained C HAPTER 2 The First Villages Late Saxon and Early Medieval Period 800–1300 FIG 2.1: An image of a new village formed in this period with its church dominating the single-storey, peasant longhouses around it. This chapter will look at the reasons this new type of settlement developed, the forms they took and the society which evolved within them . A s England started to emerge from the Dark Ages we find the large kingdoms of firstly Northumbria, then Mercia and fina…