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THE WILTSHIRE COTSWOLDS (EXPLORING HISTORIC WILTSHIRE 3)

by Ken Watts

Published by The Hobnob Press. 1st. 2007

Very good condition. The Wiltshire Cotswolds on the county's north-western fring. An unassuming but fascinating and attractive region, which extends from Bradford on Avon in the south, through Corsham, Sherston and Malmesbury to the Cotswold Water Park and Cricklade in the north. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. ix and 290 pages including index.

Edges lightly rubbed, text block very slightly grubby. Rear cover lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

ISBN: 9780946418657
Stock no. 1830027

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Contents

  • 1. SOME GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE WILTSHIRE COTSWOLDS:
  • The Provenance of the Name The Wilshire Cotswolds
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Dry-stone Walls
  • Farming and Inustry
  • 2. MALMESBURY AND THE NORTHERN FRINGE, INCLUDING THE FOSSE WAY:
  • The Fosse Way
  • The Area North of Malmesbury
  • Charlton and its Parks
  • John Dryden at Charlton Park
  • A Proposed Canal
  • Hankerton, Eastcourt House, and Cloatley
  • Oaksey
  • Minety
  • Ashton Keynes
  • The Cotswold Water Park
  • Cricklade
  • St Augustine and the Celtic Bishops
  • Hailstone and Fulke FitzWarin - outlaw
  • Latton and Eysey
  • Malmesbury, the 'Queen of hilltop towns'
  • King's Heath
  • Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
  • The Headwaters of the Bristol Avon
  • Sherston and John Rattlebones
  • Easton Town, the Goodenoughs, and Pinkney
  • Easton Grey, Foxley and Bremilham
  • Henry Fox and the Tockenham Forger
  • Corston and its West Park
  • William Collingsbourne and Bradfield Manor House
  • Stanton St Quintin
  • Murder in Stanton Park
  • Grittleton and Alderton
  • Suggest walks in the North-Wiltshire Cotswolds
  • 3. THE MID-WILTSHIRE COTSWOLDS, INCLUDING CASTLE COMBE AND BIDDESTONE
  • The By Brook
  • Castle Combe
  • West Kington and Bishop Latimer
  • A Roman Settlement on the Fosse Way
  • Lugbury Long Barrow
  • Kington St Michael and John Aubrey of Easton Piercy
  • John Britton Aubrey's Countryside
  • Yatton Keynell and Thomas Stumpe
  • Ford, North Wraxall, Slaughterford and Bury Camp
  • Biddestone and its surroundings
  • Colerne and games on Colerne Down
  • Colerne Park
  • Some Roman Signal Stations?
  • Ditteridge, Cheney Court and Sir John Cheyney
  • Hartham Park
  • Suggested walks in the Mid-Wiltshire Cotswolds
  • 4. BRADFORD AND THE SOUTH, INCLUDING BOX AND CORSHAM
  • Communications
  • The Roman Western Road to Bath
  • The Bath Coach Road
  • The Kennet and Avon Canal
  • The Great Western Railway
  • Box and its Roman Villa
  • Coleridge at Box
  • Chapel Plaister and Hazelbury Manor
  • Corsham
  • The Hungerford Almshouses
  • Outer Corsham
  • Speke's death in Neston Park
  • Atworth and Wick Farm
  • Monkton Farleigh
  • South Wraxhall
  • The Lost Mansion of Great Cumberwell
  • Great Chalfield
  • Holt
  • Broughton Gifford
  • Monkton House
  • Semington and Isaac Gulliver the Smuggler
  • The Lower Bristol Avon
  • Whaddon and the Longs
  • Bradford on Avon
  • A Bradford on Avon Bigamist
  • Avoncliff and the Old Court
  • The Winsley Plateau
  • The 1940 Defensive Line along the River Avon
  • Suggested walks in the Southern Wiltshire Cotswolds
  • CONCLUSION

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