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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Signed by both authors. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> From mediaeval farms to 21st century man- sions Lympstone is a village full of variety. There are 93 listed houses of special archi- tectural and historical interest and this book describes them all and many others. As well as taking us on tours of the houses it tells us of their history and of the people who lived in them. There are the great fami- lies from the big houses the shipbuilders and merchants and the old Lympstone fami- lies who lived in the cottages the fishermen boatbuilders undertakers shopkeepers farm workers drapers coal merchants and lace makers. And through the memories of diarists such as Annie Thomas Fanny Orchard and Minne Street we learn of life that was lived in Lympstone houses 100 years ago. Above all this book helps us to understand the buildings of a Devon village as it has evolved over the past 800 years to become the much-loved community that it is today. (LL)