FROM TRACKWAY TO TURNPIKE
Written by Gilbert Sheldon
Published by Oxford University Press
in 1928
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- DEVON
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ROADS
- TURNPIKES
FROM TRACKWAY TO TURNPIKE
Written by Gilbert Sheldon.
Stock no. 597989
1st.
1928.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
An Illustration From East Devon. Brick-red cloth, gilt titles. B/w maps. Book: book plate to front pastedown. Corners bumped and rubbed.
Front cover
Contents
- I. The Nature of the Country
- II. Prehistoric Roads
- III. The Romano-British Period and the Rise of Exeter
- IV. The Transition to the Middle Ages and the Regrouping of Population
- V. The Middle Ages
- VI. East Devon a Manufacturing County: 1550-1750
- VII. Travelling: 1550-1750
- VIII. The Breakdown of the Old System and the Beginning of Turnpikes
- IX. Roads and Travelling: 1753-85
- X. The Coaching Age: Social and economic Changes
- XI. The Coaching Age: the Roads
- XII. The Passing of the Old Traffic
- XIII. Travel in the Coaching Age
- XIV. Inns and the Cost of Travelling in the Coaching Age
- XV. Epilogue
- Index
- Maps
- i. Prehistoric and Roman Roads
- ii. Medieval and Pre-Turnpike Roads
- iii. Main Tunpike Roads