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A Harvest of Hexton by Anne Ashley Cooper [Author], 1986 ISBN 0-9611112-1-3 Hardback xviii + 298 pages

• Forward

• Acknowledgements

• Prologue

1. The Earliest Farmers: Ravensburgh Hill Fort

2. Roman Occupation: Saxon Village: Danish Invasion

3. Sexi the Dane: Domesday Hexton: Lord, Steward, Reeve and Villein

4. Dedication of St Faith's Church: Medieval Farming

5. St Faith's Well: Additions to the Church: The Black Death: Charter of Liberties

6. A Manumission: Church Wardens' Responsibilities: Church Bells

7. The Wool Trade: Parish Constables: Local Bequests

8. Village Life in 1500: Hock Tide Ceremonies

9. Dissolution of the Monasteries: Sir Richard Lee: Court Rolls and the Custom Book: Yeoman Farmers

10. The Taverner Family: Their Village Neighbours: Civil War

11. The Restoration: Cropping Changes: The Cross Family: 'A Goose, and Owl and a Blockhead'

St Faith's Church circa 1720
from contemporary drawing by Oldfield  (HALS)

12. The Enclosure Act: Hexton House Built: Wesley's Influence: Sale Catalogue, 1789

13. The Young and de Lautour Families: Census of 1841: Inventory of House 1845: Straw Plaiting; School Plaiting: School Built

14. Captain William Young: Board School Log: May Day

15. George Hodgson: Model Village: Henry T Hynd: World War I

16. Sir James Hill: Sale Catalogue 1918: Between the Wars: Parish Survey

17. The Ashley Cooper Family: Inventory of House 1941: Trench Digging: War Time Hexton

18. Last of Mixed Farming: New Technology and Communications: Social Changes

Epilogue

Hexton in 1900 - one of a number of maps in the book

Appendices

1. Chapter Notes

2. Bibliography

3. St Faith's Churchyard

4. Lords of the Manor of Hexton

5. Vicar's of St Faith's

6. Church Wardens, Overseers and Constables

7. Head Teachers of Hexton School

8. Chairmen of the Parish Meeting

9. Some Landlords of the Inns

10. Millers of Hexton Mill

Index

Anne Ashley Cooper also wrote 100 Years of Hexton