Francis Weatherhogg, saddler and Census taker, had one special form to deliver. To a 'witch'... Under the shifting shadows of the walnut tree, Mary Ann opened the door of her tiny stone cottage. There she lived, unmarried, with a man whose extraordinary story spanned three continents. And Mary Ann herself - in 1891! - was still feared in her village for murderous 'spells'... 'Village' tells extraordinary stories of six homes, from 1841, when the first Census taker trudged up steep Hollowgate Hill, to 1971, when its author, aged 18, was driven below its thorn trees to Oxford. But she never forgot her village: Vicarage Road where Amy Mary, her grandmother, gleefully spoke of her rebellious survival of 'service'; tall Rose Cottage, up 'Long Lane', where Mrs Rudkin, pioneering archaeologist, brought the past to life for village children; the Mount, the farmhouse where the author's family camped in a few grand rooms, and the mysterious cold Manor on its limestone ridge, 'the Cliff'... The author's memories began with cheerfulness. Her research revealed what women survived: especially abandoned, pregnant girls, struggling 'Singlewomen', including Amy Mary's own tiny, gallant sister. Yet it was in the finest houses that young wives in farming's 'Golden Age' crashed and burned.
And how did old Emma Jarman survive into her 80s, despite her Saturday night sessions in the Commercial Inn? She had her lift home booked with Mr Weatherhogg. In a wheelbarrow... Alison's writing about her childhood village has recently been featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Financial Times, and discussed on The Verb on BBC Radio 4.

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