1. Setting the scene -- 2. The estate system -- 3. The peasant system -- 4. The measurement of open and closed -- 5. The origins and basis of village differentiation -- 6. How and where the model worked -- 7. Rural Scotland -- 8. Rural Wales -- 9. Town and country : contrast and comparison -- 10. Socio-spatial segregation and the roles of urban landowners -- 11. The role of the village in industrialisation and urbanisation -- 12. Epilogue : lord and peasant today.