A review by margaret21
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew Green

5.0

Here is a totally immersive account of how certain villages and towns in England simply got wiped from the map. By placing his chosen locations in the context of their history, their geography and their climatic or political turbulence, he offers a surprisingly varied set of stories of obliteration, drowning, geological change, historical unrest. Every story is placed in the context of that community's place in the history of its period of change, and offers a rounded, absorbing and detailed account of why and how these communities disappeared. A moving and haunting set of stories.