Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village, credited to Tickner Edwardes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village by Tickner Edwardes. Read in English by Steve C If you love the quiet of the country - the real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible sounds you will get it in Windlecombe, year in and year out. For how many ages a human settlement has existed in this wooded, sun-flooded cleft of the Downs, it is impossible to hazard a guess. Windlecombe is mentioned in Domesday, but the stones of the old church proclaim it as belonging to times more distant still. Neighbourhood, the daily interchange of thought and word and kindly deed, is a necessity for all healthy human life, and the natural medium of all true advancement. And nowhere will you find it of such sturdy growth, rooted in such nourishing, yet temperate soil, than in the villages of modern England. (From the Introduction of Neighbourhood – Tickner Edwardes) Although the village of Windlecombe is itself fictitious, it is based on the tiny West Sussex village of Burpham – a place that Tickner Edwardes lived in for a time before WWI. He was to return in 1927, holding the post of vicar at St. Mary’s parish church until his retirement in 1935 and continued to reside there until his death in 1944. Neighbourhood chronicles a number of notable events in Windlecombe (including the annual cricket match against Stavisham - their arch rivals!) and experiences of some of the distinctive characters within this Downland village. - Summary by Steve C

Recording facts

• Recording title: Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village
• Author credits: Tickner Edwardes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 9:49:14

Catalogue topics

• england
• countryside
• Sussex
• village life
• english village life
• english social history
• english villages
• the downs

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 00 - Introduction — 10:33
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - January - Part 1 — 24:41
3. 02 - Chapter 1 - January - Part 2 — 25:24
4. 03 - Chapter 2 - February - Part 1 — 28:30
5. 04 - Chapter 2 - February - Part 2 — 25:07
6. 05 - Chapter 3 - March - Part 1 — 23:35
7. 06 - Chapter 3 - March - Part 2 — 27:37
8. 07 - Chapter 4 - April - Part 1 — 21:03
9. 08 - Chapter 4 - April - Part 2 — 21:24
10. 09 - Chapter 5 - May - Part 1 — 25:30
11. 10 - Chapter 5 - May - Part 2 — 28:52
12. 11 - Chapter 6 - June - Part 1 — 26:35
13. 12 - Chapter 6 - June - Part 2 — 27:40
14. 13 - Chapter 7 - July - Part 1 — 27:11
15. 14 - Chapter 7 - July - Part 2 — 26:33
16. 15 - Chapter 8 - August - Part 1 — 17:25
17. 16 - Chapter 8 - August - Part 2 — 22:03
18. 17 - Chapter 9 - September - Part 1 — 21:26
19. 18 - Chapter 9 - September - Part 2 — 24:40
20. 19 - Chapter 10 - October - Part 1 — 22:52
21. 20 - Chapter 10 - October - Part 2 — 19:40
22. 21 - Chapter 11 - November - Part 1 — 23:35
23. 22 - Chapter 11 - November - Part 2 — 25:11
24. 23 - Chapter 12 - December - Part 1 — 20:15

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