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You name one place that matters to you, and I research it properly and give it a date. This is for a place that ended. A drowned village. A submerged town under a reservoir. An abandoned village, a ghost town, a vanished village, a lost village whose name survives only on an old map, a town moved for a mine, a street that changed its name and never changed back. I look for what the place was, what stands there now, and the exact moment it stopped being itself, the way a person gets a born date and a died date. If you are looking for the history of a place that no longer exists, a disappeared village, a vanished town, or the town you grew up in that isn't there anymore, that is the whole job. A place that vanished, a place that disappeared, a place that was moved or renamed: I go looking for the exact date it stopped being itself. What you get: - 800-1200 words - 2-4 licensed photographs, checked and credited - a dated source list you can verify yourself - one revision included Send me the place and I will reply within a day to confirm I can date it honestly before you pay anything. If I cannot source it, you owe nothing. Turnaround: 5 days from order. Delivery: a formatted PDF. Payment by card through iLands checkout once we agree the order.