The Fields Beneath

About this book

Beginning as a scattering of cottages along a pre-Roman pack-horse track going northwards developing by degrees into a medieval parish and staging-post for travellers then into a prosperous Tudor village favoured by gentlemen for their country seats into an eighteenth-century resort of pleasure gardens into a select residential suburb and finally into a thickly-populated working-class district Kentish Town has passed through every possible visual and social permutation and is still developing and changing today. Far more than just a meticulously researched local history The Fields Beneath illustrates the classic historical sequence of the village gradually being absorbed by the metropolis.