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Materials for a History of Cockfield, Suffolk

Materials for a History of Cockfield, Suffolk

Churchill Babington

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ArchaeologyGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353606659
ISBN13: 9789353606657
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the quiet parish of Cockfield, the long story of rural England is written in land, names, and stone. History lives in small places. In Materials for a History of Cockfield, Suffolk, Churchill Babington, scholar, clergyman, and devoted antiquary, gathers the surviving traces of his adopted village into a painstaking English parish history study: documentary notes, local traditions, notable families, and the changing life of church and manor. At once a classic Suffolk local history book and a vivid piece of Victorian rural England history, it captures how one community in nineteenth century Suffolk worked, worshipped, and remembered. For family historians, Babington's detail and care with parish records and genealogy make this an enduring family history researchers' guide to Cockfield Suffolk village history, tracing lines of descent, landholding, and local office. For scholars and curious readers alike, it serves as a dependable local historians' reference book, setting intimate lives within the broader patterns of rural Suffolk social history and forming a strong foundation for any antiquarian local history collection. It sits comfortably beside the Suffolk county history series and later enterprises such as the Victoria County History Suffolk, supplying parish-scale depth to broader surveys. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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