List of Illustrations 6
Acknowledgements 9
Foreword 10
1 The Personality of Surrey 11
2 In the Beginning 19
3 Saxon Surrey 27
4 Medieval Farming and Woodmanship 37
5 The Early Medieval Church 43
6 Living in Medieval Town and Countryside 47
7 Surrey as a Rural Workshop (1560-1640) 51
8 The Improvers (1560-1640) 62
9 The Age of Luxury (1640-1740) 69
10 Remodelling the Landscape (1740-1840) 78
11 The Remaking of the Road System and New Forms
of Transport (to 1840) 84
12 Agriculture (1780-1860) 90
13 William Cobbett’s Surrey (1780-1840) 94
14 The Land of Heart’s Desire (1840-1918) 98
15 Building and Gardening in ‘Surrey Style’ (1870-1939) 104
16 The Old Rural Society (1840-1918) 109
17 The Surrey Side of London (1800-1914) 114
18 The Surrey Towns 122
19 The Austere Present: Surrey since 1939 132
Bibliography 139
Index 142