Rural England is central to any account of Englishness and yet the rural England which so many writers evoked had either disappeared in the first wave of industrialization in the 19th century or was being changed beyond recognition through the introduction of electricity,the impact of the wireless,increased mechanization of agriculture, and the expansion of public transport and car ownership.Rural England is central to any account of Englishness and yet the rural England which so many writers evoked had either disappeared in the first wave of industrialization in the 19 th century or was being changed beyond recognition through the introduction of electricity, the impact of the wireless, increased mechanization of agriculture, and the expansion of public transport and car ownership