It is one of the best and most informative local history books to have appeared in recent times and we have much to thank author Cameron Self and aerial photographer John Fielding for.

The Lost Villages of Norfolk is fascinating, taking us across of the county looking at where and how we lived in different times and the photographs are brilliant.

Norfolk has more than 250 lost, shrunken or shifted medieval villages, which is more than almost any other county in England with the possible exception of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

(Image: John Fielding)

As Cameron says: “To have lots of lost villages, you have to have had lots of actual villages in the first place and, prior to the 14th century, Norfolk was one of the most prosperous and densely populated parts of........

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