Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain

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From a submerged Neolithic settlement to an abandoned Black Death hamlet, a Norfolk village requisitioned in wartime to a Welsh town sunk in a reservoir, these are Britain's shadowlands. Call us on: +442033020460 Whether evoking the Atlantis myth or Romantic ruins, an ancient Roman metropolis or the modern coastline, 'Shadowlands' peers through the cracks of history at Britain's secret landscape. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a Suffolk cliff by sea storms; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in the Welsh Marches; and the ghostly reservoir that is Capel Celyn, one of the few remaining solely Welsh-speaking villages, drowned by Liverpool City Council. New Paperback Travelling across Britain, Green transports the reader to these places as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. Historian Matthew Green tells the extraordinary stories of how these places met their fate and probes the disappearances to explain why Britain looks the way it does today. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands. By exploring the lost causes and dead ends of history - places lost to natural phenomena, war and plague, economic shifts and technological progress - the precariousness of our own This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns, and vanished villages.