1. Office for National Statistics, 2011 Report.
2. Sarah Ruden, Standpoint magazine, June 2009.
3. Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art (Architectural Press, 1956).
4. George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn (Secker & Warburg, 1941).
5. Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside (J. M. Dent, 1986).
1. H. L. Mencken, The American Language (Knopf, 1948).
2. Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art (Architectural Press, 1956).
3. Robert Southey, Letters From England (1808).
4. Norman Stone, Introduction to Adrian Sykes, Made in Britain (Adelphi, 2011).
5. World Health Organization figures, 2011.
6. Southey, Letters.
7. Terry Jennings, Atmosphere and Weather (Evans Brothers, 2005).
8. Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People (Macmillan, 1889).
9. Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2011.
10. Martin Gayford, interview with David Hockney, Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2010.
11. Migration Watch research, 19 November 2011.
12. Southey, Letters.
13. Ian Fleming, Dr No (Jonathan Cape, 1958).
14. Pevsner, Englishness of English Art.
15. Environment Agency figures, 2010.
1. Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island (Doubleday, 1995).
2. Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside (J. M. Dent, 1986).
3. Ronald Blythe, Aftermath: Selected Writings 1960–2010 (Black Dog Books, 2010).
4. Halford Mackinder, Britain and the British Seas (William Heinemann, 1902).
5. Alec Clifton-Taylor, The Pattern of English Building (Faber, 1972).
6. Philip Macleod, Lecture at Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, 11 May 2004.
7. Rackham, History of the Countryside.
1. Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside (J. M. Dent, 1986).
2. James Owen, Danger UXB: The Heroic Story of the WWII Bomb Disposal Teams (Little, Brown, 2010).
3. Simon Jenkins, England’s Thousand Best Churches (Allen Lane, 1999).
4. Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest (Allen Lane, 2011).
5. Mark Griffiths, Country Life, 5 January 2011.
6. Rackham, History of the Countryside.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Oliver Rackham, Woodlands (HarperCollins, 2006).
10. Rackham, History of the Countryside.
11. The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology figures, Daily Telegraph, July 2011.
1. Penelope Lively, The Presence of the Past (Collins, 1976).
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits (1856).
3. H. L. Mencken, The American Language (Knopf, 1948).
4. Daily Telegraph obituary of Margaret Gelling, 8 May 2009.
1. Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art (Architectural Press, 1956).
2. John Goodall, The English Castle (Yale University Press, 2011).
3. Nikolaus Pevsner, Introduction to A. Savidge, The Parsonage in England (SPCK, 1964).
4. F. R. Banks, English Villages (B. T. Batsford, 1963).
5. Ibid.
6. Robin Dunbar, How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbar’s Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks (Faber, 2010).
7. Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside (J. M. Dent, 1986).
8. Norman Stone, Introduction to Adrian Sykes, Made in Britain, (Adelphi, 2011).
9. Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph, personal communication to author, 18 November 2009.
10. Stone, Introduction to Adrian Sykes, Made in Britain (Adelphi, 2011).
11. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Letters from London and Europe (Alma Books, 2010).
12. Clive Aslet on the Scottish village, Country Life, 11 August 2010.
13. Candida Lycett Green, The Oldie Magazine, January 2010.
14. Zaha Hadid, interview with author, Evening Standard, 14 October 2010.
15. David Chipperfield, Evening Standard, 2 February 2011.
1. Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside (J. M. Dent, 1986).
2. Ibid.
3. Michael Wright, C’est la Folie (Bantam Press, 2006).
4. Max Hooper, Hedges (Collins, 1974).
5. Sue Clifford and Angela King, England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006).
6. Rackham, History of the Countryside.
7. F. R. Banks, English Villages (B. T. Batsford, 1963).
8. Rackham, History of the Countryside.
9. Penelope Lively, The Presence of the Past (Collins, 1976).
10. Rackham, History of the Countryside.
11. Ibid.
12. Clifford and King, England in Particular.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. W. G. Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape (Penguin, 1955).
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Rackham, History of the Countryside.
19. George Orwell, Coming Up for Air (Victor Gollancz, 1939).
20. Rackham, History of the Countryside.
21. Guy Adams, ‘A throwback to feudalism: David Cameron and the father-in-law from hell’, Independent, 5 June 2007
22. Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits (1856).
23. Adam Nicolson, The Gentry: Stories of the English (HarperPress, 2011).
24. Peter Ackroyd, Foundation: The History of England, Volume I (Macmillan, 2011).
25. Philip Yorke, The Royal Tribes of Wales (1799).
1. Google Street View Competition, March 2010.
2. Alexander Pope, ‘Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington, of the Use of Riches’ (1731).
3. William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty (1753).
4. Norman Stone, Introduction to Adrian Sykes, Made in Britain (Adelphi 2011).
5. World Health Organization figures, 2011.
6. Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside (J. M. Dent, 1986).
7. Lloyds TSB Research, 3 March 2012.
8. John Goodall, The English Castle (Yale University Press, 2011).
1. Hugo Williams, Times Literary Supplement, 17 June 2011.
2. James Ravilious, A Corner of England: North Devon Landscapes and People (Devon Books, 1995).
3. Nikolaus Pevsner, County Durham (Penguin, 1953).
4. Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845).
5. Noel Kingsbury, Daily Telegraph, 8 January 2011.
6. Adam Nicolson, Daily Telegraph, 26 May 2010.
7. Clive Aslet, Daily Telegraph, 1 June 2010.
8. Sunday Telegraph, 20 March 2011.
9. Winifred Holtby, South Riding: An English Landscape (Collins, 1936).
10. Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph, 24 February 2009.
11. Philip Toynbee, End of a Journey: An Autobiographical Journey, 1979–81 (Bloomsbury, 1988).
12. P. G. Wodehouse, ‘Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend’, from Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (Herbert Jenkins, 1935).
1. Daily Telegraph, 15 December 2011.
2. Evening Standard, 16 November 2011.
3. Sue Clifford and Angela King, England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006).
4. Motorcycle News, March 2010.
5. Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside (J. M. Dent, 1986).
6. Ibid.
7. W. G. Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape (Penguin, 1955).
8. Rackham, History of the Countryside.
9. Ibid.
10. Evelyn Waugh, ‘A call to the orders’, Country Life, 26 February 1938.
11. Penelope Lively, The Presence of the Past (Collins, 1976).
12. Trevor Rowley, The English Landscape in the 20th Century (Hambledon Continuum, 2006).
13. Juliet Gardiner, The Thirties: An Intimate History (HarperPress, 2010).
14. Bella Bathurst, The Bicycle Book (HarperPress, 2011).
15. Evening Standard, 3 November 2011.
16. Clifford and King, England in Particular.
17. Ibid.
1. Peter Clack, ‘Early Settlement in the County’, in Nikolaus Pevsner and Elizabeth Williamson, County Durham (Penguin, 1983).
2. Penelope Lively, The Presence of the Past (Collins, 1976).
3. Nikolaus Pevsner, Northumberland (Penguin, 1957).
4. Nikolaus Pevsner, Lancashire: The Industrial and Commercial South (Penguin, 1969).
5. Andrew Foyle, Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides, 2004).
6. Ibid.
7. J. B. Priestley, English Journey (Victor Gollancz, 1934).
8. Daily Telegraph, 29 December 2010.
9. Ian Jack, Guardian, 8 May 2010.
10. Savills, World in London Report, 2011.
1. Philip Augar, Financial Times, 26 October 2011.
2. Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement, 1 January 2010.
3. Halifax Report, September 2011.
4. Trevor Rowley, The English Landscape in the 20th Century (Hambledon Continuum, 2006).
5. Daily Mail, 18 March 1905.
6. Christopher Woodward, Director of the Garden Museum, personal conversation, 26 September 2011.
7. Halifax Report, September 2011.
8. Ferdinand Mount, Cold Cream (Bloomsbury, 2008).
9. Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus (Wasmuth, 1905).
10. Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2011.
11. Mount, TLS, 1 January 2010.
12. Juliet Gardiner, The Thirties: An Intimate History (HarperPress, 2010).
13. Evelyn Waugh, ‘A call to the orders’, Country Life, 26 February 1938.
14. Chris Beanland, Independent, 1 March 2011.
1. Anthony Powell, Books Do Furnish a Room (Heinemann, 1971).
2. Antony Woodward, The Garden in the Clouds (HarperPress, 2010).
3. Office for National Statistics.
4. Ibid.
5. Spectator, 26 November 2011.
6. Valuation Office Agency, 2010 figures.
7. Sathnam Sanghera, The Times, 2 April 2011.
8. Ibid.
9. Financial Times, 3 December 2011.
10. Ed West, Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2011.
11. Norman Stone, Introduction to Adrian Sykes, Made in Britain (Adelphi, 2011).
12. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, writing from York in 1927, Letters from London and Europe (Alma Books, 2010).
13. George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn (Victor Gollancz, 1941).
1. Martin Gayford interview with David Hockney, Daily Telegraph, 20 October 2010.
2. Frank McDonald, Daily Telegraph, 13 September 2011.
3. ‘The History of Brockwell Park’, www.brockwellpark.com.
4. Roger Kimball, Times Literary Supplement, 20 March 2009.
5. Jonathan Meades, Guardian, 17 March 2010.
6. Clive Aslet, ‘A peculiarly British love affair?’, Country Life, 10 June 2009.
7. John McEwen, Country Life, 30 November 2011.
8. Adrian Sykes, Made in Britain (Adelphi, 2011).
9. The Land Registry, 2011 figures.
10. Douglas Sanders, Arrival City (Heinemann, 2010).