COCKLEBURY A FARMING AREA AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE VALE OF WILTSHIRE
Written by Avice R. Wilson
Illustrated by Tobie Wallis, Henry Pedersen
Published by Phillimore
in 1983
ISBN: 0850335108
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- WILTSHIRE
- FARMING
COCKLEBURY A FARMING AREA AND ITS PEOPLE IN THE VALE OF WILTSHIRE
Written by Avice R. Wilson.
Illustrated by Tobie Wallis, Henry Pedersen.
Stock no. 2132581
1st.
1983.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Brown boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. ISBN: 0850335108. Bumping to spine. Page edge browning, with foxing. Price-cut wrapper is faded to spine, with some grubby marks; a few edge nicks.
Front cover
Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps and line drawings
- Foreword by The Earl of Shelburne
- Preface
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Beginning of the Story
- 2. Saxon Conquest and Settlement
- 3. 1066 to the Black Death
- 4. To the threshold of Change
- 5. The Beginning of Modern Farming at Cocklebury
- 6. The 1600s: Social and Economic Change at Cocklebury
- 7. The Eighteenth Century: Prosperity and Progress
- 8. The Industrial World comes to Cocklebury
- 9. The Twentieth Century at Cocklebury
- References
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index