Jack Hargreaves - How plague devastated the villages of Wessex (pt 1) 

"Something wrong with a simple explanation of that sort" My stepfather, in the first of two films based on the abandoned chalk land village of Knowlton, explains why the Black Death seems to have devastated more villages on the high ground of Wessex than on lower ground. This episode of 'Old Country' was made in the early 1980s by Lacewing Productions for Channel 4, working out of a studio in Meonstoke Village Hall. Steve Wade directed. Location filming by Steve Wagstaff,
In case this interests people here are books by and related to my stepfather:
Jack Hargreaves, illustrated by Bernard Venables, 'Fishing for a year' MacGibbon & Kee 1951, republished Medlar Press 1998
Jack Hargreaves, 'Out of Town: A Life Relived on Television', Dovecote Press 1987
Jack Hargreaves, 'The Old Country', Dovecote Press 1988
Jack Hargreaves with Terry Heathcote, 'The New Forest: A Portrait in Colour', Dovecote Press 1992
Paul Peacock, 'Jack Hargreaves - A Portrait', Farming Books & Videos 2006