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Glendon Hall, Northants, first screened 22 January 2006

Time Trial

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The old village of Glendon was demolished and its 62 inhabitants evicted in 1514 to make way for the new hall. What was the former farmland mainly used for?

 

What happened to the former parish church of Glendon when the occupants of the village were evicted?

 

How many deserted medieval villages are known in England?

 

Why were Time Team's experts surprised to learn that fine Flemish painted glass, decorated with religious iconography, had been installed in the church at Glendon during the 1560s?

 

Which of the following sets of crops would the medieval farmers of Glendon not have grown in a typical three-field rotation system?

 

What would medieval peasants almost certainly never have seen that Time Team found at Glendon Hall?

 

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