Introduction: landscape and community in England -- Country, county and town: patterns of regional evolution in England -- River and wold: reflections on the historical origin of regions and pays -- The making of the agrarian landscape of Kent -- The primary towns of England -- The lost towns of England -- Suffolk and the Great Rebellion, 1640-1660 -- The English urban inn -- Springs of sensibility: Philip Doddridge of Northampton and the evangelical tradition -- Kentish family portrait -- Country carriers in the nineteenth century -- Dynasty and community since the seventeenth century.