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Britain’s lost towns and villages

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Britain is a land full of lost settlements – villages, towns and even cities. Matthew Green explores these deserted places with David Musgrove, looking at their scarred and romantic remains in the landscape, and considering how and why they became lost to time. (Ad) Matthew Green is the author of Shadowlands: A Journey through Lost Britain (Faber & Faber, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadowlands-Journey-Britains-Vanished-Villages/dp/057133802X/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.9

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0:15.7

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0:18.1

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0:20.6

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0:21.7

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0:24.2

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0:26.3

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0:30.3

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Reveal.

0:56.0

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

1:03.3

Britain is a land full of lost settlements, villages, towns and even cities.

1:08.1

In his new book, Shadowlands, a journey through Lost Britain,

1:13.6

historian Matthew Green explores some of these bygone places and considers why and how they disappeared. Dave Musgrove put in a call to Matthew to find out more. He started

1:21.0

by asking Matthew how he chose the lost places that feature in the book. I look at 10 of them

1:27.2

in the book. There are in fact

1:28.6

a lot more, but I didn't want it to turn into an encyclopedia. I can have curated 10 memorable

1:35.7

stations on what I call my itinerary of destruction. And I wanted to look at, you know,

1:41.6

you might be like, well, how do you know which ones to include? I had quite a strict metric, which was I wanted to look at, you know, you might be like, well, how do you know which ones to include?

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