M.W. Beresford, Deserted English Villages (Gloucester, 1989).
I wonder whether many remained deserted long? More common, from
Beresford's lecture at Leeds 1998, seems to have been later abandonment
because of enclosures.
Tom Izbicki
At 02:48 PM 2/8/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>As has already been stated, I don't believe that deconsecrations
>could have been very common during the middle ages, but perhaps they
>became necessary in the wake of the Black Death, when whole villages
>were apparently abandoned. I have vague recollections of a book on
>abandoned English villages but don't remember the title.
>Cheers,
>Jim Bugslag
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