This book reveals how settled life began and developed in a small rural community in Norfolk. A professional historian’s text is allied to fascinating glimpses, through old and previously unpublished photographs, of local life through the ages. The Book of Bergh Apton was produced to record the old agricultural way of life which has all but vanished. It started as a village millennium project, and was brought to fruition by the Bergh Apton Local History Group whose members have done much of the local spadework needed by its author to write a lucid and valuable record of a unique village. All this, and much more, is detailed in this 160 page book, copiously illustrated throughout with over 300 historic photographs of the places and people who have made up the thriving community of Bergh Apton and its surrounding parish.