Abandoned Communities


	Abandoned Communities
valann 47
7-11-2009 8:08 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/96e81e9a-2228-48bb-a719-8e8cf0a05597/255206C5-ECEE-464F-A3AB-B260F42E8EB3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/index.html" href="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/index.html">Abandoned Communities</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html" href="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html">In 1943 the War Office needed the village of <A href="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/imber.html">Imber</A> on Salisbury Plain for military training.  People living there were given 47 days to move away.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/img/64332BFB-A4C2-4BDA-9271-D8D92390539F" alt="wp55823737.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/img/3C28F67E-826A-431F-B3FB-0166FED3D3FE" alt="wp5e93b259.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><SPAN class="Normal-28-C">The village of <A href="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/page88.html">Cosmeston</A> was abandoned in the fourteenth century, possibly as a result of the Black Death. Parts of it have been reconstructed and opened to the public.<BR /></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><SPAN class="Normal-28-C">Littlecote and Lillingstone Dayrell were medieval villages in <A href="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/buckinghamshire.html">Buckinghamshire</A>. Their last tenants were evicted around 1500 so that the landlord could enclose the area for sheep pasture.<BR /></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/img/96C766C1-5351-4C6E-9974-66FB6EBE1F97" alt="wp2462ad68.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><SPAN class="Normal-28-C">The <A href="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/blackdeath.html">Black Death</A> swept through Britain between 1348 and 1350.  Tilgarsley and Tusmore were villages in Oxfordshire that are known to have been wiped out by it.<BR /></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/img/78D177F4-8FDB-49B0-802C-6A900023F76B" alt="TusmoreMap3.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><SPAN class="Normal-28-C">People lived at <A href="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/ygraig.html">Y Graig</A> in Monmouthshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They were forced to leave after conflict with the landowners over rent.<BR /></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/img/3F9569D0-F4AB-4567-ABDC-FEFF5D22F3E6" alt="wpd042e022.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/img/3E2A5640-3CF2-4830-9FD1-50ABEE7EFF9C" alt="wpcfe31e40.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/moreplaces.html"><SPAN class="Normal-28-C"><A href="http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/woodend.html">Woodend</A> was a hamlet very close to the west bank of the Severn Estuary. In the eighteenth century it was washed away by high tides and storms.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/255206C5-ECEE-464F-A3AB-B260F42E8EB3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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