This guide focuses on the Kennet & Avon, linking Bristol with Reading, and the River Thames between Oxford and Brentford, expertly interpreted to inspire you, on foot, afloat or by bicycle.
Part of a series of guides to the inland waterways, this title covers Bristol to Reading on the Kennet & Avon and Oxford to Brentford on the Thames.
This is an essential guide for boaters, walkers, cyclists and armchair travellers to the Oxford, Grand Union and Upper Thames canals.
The book also includes 20 easy circular walks, ranging from 41⁄4 to 9 miles, taking in the best sections of the canal and visiting sites nearby, making this two guidebooks in one.
Moriarty, M., Buildings of the Cotswolds (London: Victor Gollancz, 1989). Pearson, J. M. & Son Ltd, Canal Companion – Kennet & Avon, River Thames (Tatenhill Common: Wayzgoose, 2012). Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Wiltshire (2nd ...
The 10th edition focusses on two circular routes: the justifiably popular Cheshire Ring, and the as yet not quite so well known South Pennine Ring.
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Michael Pearson here writes about his travels to American places of literary import, including: William Faulkner's Mississippi; Ernest Hemingway's Key West; John Steinbeck's California; Mark Twain's Missouri; and Flannery O'Connor's Georgia ...
This extended 10th edition of Michael Pearson's Welsh Waters Canal Companion focusses on the Llangollen, Montgomery and Monmouthshire & Brecon canals in Wales, and the Shropshire Union Canal in England.
In Water Gypsies, Julian Dutton – who was born and grew up on a houseboat – traces the evolution of boat-dwelling, from an industrial phenomenon in the heyday of the canals to the rise of life afloat as an alternative lifestyle in ...
'Parch marks' show on grass as negative marks and can often be seen revealing hidden walls under English Heritage's manicured grass at monastic sites. Cropmarks sometimes only show for a few days a year. Repeatedly flying over areas ...