A review by tucholsky
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew Green

1.0

There are some teriffically interesting stories to be told here. They just aren't very well told. The closest the author comes to this is in the chapter on Wharram Percy where he manages to posit a theory about the black death not being responsible for the death of as many villages as is thought. He makes a good case too. I do know of places from Kent, where this is not the case, Dode for example on the Pilgrims Way but i ca see the case he makes for some of his villages.