Researching the History of a Country House
Researching the History of a Country House Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9781860776106
Pub Date: December 2010
Imprint: Phillimore & Co Ltd
Illustrations: b/w illus
Price: £6.95   RRP: £17.99
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An accessible guide to researching the history of a country house. Richard Goodenough takes the budding local historian through the various classes of evidence which may be employed including oral history, county histories and travel writing, the landscape, architecture, early written records including Domesday Book, Chancery rolls and monorial surveys, census returns, wills, tax records and maps. He illustrates the process throughout with a case study of his own country house at Trimworth, in Kent.