Three Hertfordshire Villages Survey

The papers are stored in one archival box and are sorted into 18 folders. Folder one contains pilot questionnaires; folder two to seventeen contains 312 completed questionnaires; folder 18 contains contextual material.

This was the first social study of the influx of middle class managerial and professional commuters to Hertfordshire villages; and the impact that this selective migration of newcomers had on formerly rural communities. One of the three villages studied still maintained the character of a predominantly rural, agriculturally centred, parish, whilst the two other villages were situated on the 'rural-urban fringe frontier'. This study focused on questions of segregation; the relationship between class and commuting; the social and geographic origins of the population studied; and the pattern of economic and social links with 'the outside world'.

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• Pahl, R.E. 'Education and social class in commuter villages', ('Sociological Review', Vol.XI, No. 2, 1963)
• Pahl, R.E. 'Education and social class in commuter villages', ('Sociological Review', Vol.XI, No. 2, 1963)
• Pahl, R.E. 'The Two Class Village', ('New Society', 27/2/1964)
• Pahl, R.E. 'The Two Class Village', ('New Society', 27/2/1964)
• Pahl, R.E. (1965) 'Urbs in Rure, the Metropolitan Fringe in Hertfordshire', (London)
• Pahl, R.E. (1965) 'Urbs in Rure, the Metropolitan Fringe in Hertfordshire', (London)
• Pahl, R.E. 'Class and community in English commuter villages', ('Journal of the European Society for Rural Sociology', Vol. 5 no. 1, 1965 pp 5 - 23)

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