This chapter concerns how much of rural life the model can explain. If the model is successful it should be possible to predict differentiating features of village life social, economic, religious, political from a knowledge of differences in the social distribution of landownership. Within the same pages there is also an attempt to say where the model worked, in geographical, rather than sectoral terms. In this compass and within the prevailing state of research definitive answers cannot be provided to all the questions raised. Within the framework provided, however, there are many opportunities for local historians to test hypotheses which will refine the delineation of the model and add to the sum of social scientific knowledge of English rural society. The discussion so far has hinged on the assumption that the social distribution of landownership was the crucial causative factor in rural life, taken along with such qualifications as the settlement pattern and the survival or otherwise of commons.