edited by Kate Tiller

ISBN-10: 0-948598 10 7
(ISBN-13: 978-0-948598-10-4)

published 1999

216pp

96 illustrations

size: 21cm x 20cm

£12.00
 

This scholarly book is the most comprehensive history of Benson ever published. It examines the landscape, the buildings and, above all, the people who have shaped the character of the village for more than a millennium.

The editor is Dr Kate Tiller, formerly Reader in English Local History at Oxford University. She has tutored evening classes on the history of Benson for the University's Department for Continuing Education and has published studies on Benson, Ewelme and Dorchester-on-Thames. She lives at Rokemarsh, historically part of Benson.

The chapter authors are:

• Christine Holmes - 'From Pre-History to Domesday Book' & 'From Saxon Royal Vill to Medieval Manor'

• Professor David Loades & Kate Tiller - 'Tudor & Stuart Benson'

• Kate Tiller - Introduction & 'Benson 1700-1980'

• Alison Reid - 'Twentieth Century Benson'

• Catherine Murray - 'Benson's Buildings'

Indexed

Published on behalf of The Bensington Society

A companion volume to Benson - A Century of Change 1900-2000