RIDES ROUND BRITAIN
Written by John Byng, Donald Adamson
Illustrated by Anne Hayward
Published by Folio Society
in 1996
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RIDES ROUND BRITAIN
Written by John Byng, Donald Adamson.
Illustrated by Anne Hayward.
Stock no. 1830693
1st thus.
1996.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Edited by Donald Adamson. Brown cloth spine with dark brown title blocks and gilt titles, marbled paper boards. B/w engravings. Top edge dark brown. xix and 505 pages including index. Spine faded from brown to orange else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is very lightly scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Editor's Note
- 1 A Ride into the West, 1782
- London - Bagshot - Farnham - Winchester - Romsey - Ringwood - Wareham - Weymouth - Dorchester - Salisbury - Andover - Basingstoke - Reading - Waltham Cross - London
- 2 A Ride Taken in July 1785
- London - Slough - Nettlebed - Dorchester - Oxford - Witney - Burford - Shipston-on-Stour - Stratford-upon-Avon - Warwick - Kenilworth - Banbury - Oxford - Nettlebed - Slough - London
- 3 Of a Tour into South Wales, 1787
- London - Slough - Reading - Faringdon - Cirencester - Gloucester - Ross-on-Wye - Monmouth - Chepstow - New[port - Cardiff - Caerphilly - Neath - Swansea - Brecon - Hay-on-Wye - Hereford - Broadway - Woodstock - Oxford - Henley - Maidenhead - Slough - London
- 4 A Tour into Sussex, 1788
- London - Bromley - Sevenoaks - Tonbridge - Lamberhurst - Hawkhurst - Bodiam - Winchelsea - Hastings - Battle - Lewes - East Grinstead - Godstone - Croydon - Streatham - London
- 5 Tour of the Midlands, 1790
- London - Dunstable - Leicester - Castle Donnington - Derby - Buxton - Macclesfield - Knutsford - Altrincham - Stockport - Disley - Bakewell - Cromford - Cheadle - Manchester - London
- 6 A Tour into Bedfordshire, 1790
- London - Biggleswade - Huntingdon, Potton - Bedford - Sandy - Biggleswade - Baldock - Barnet - London
- 7 A Tour into Kent, 1790
- London - Foots Cray - Farningham - Aylesford - Maidstone - Ashford - Hythe - Dover - Canterbury - Sittingbourne - Rochester - Dartford - London
- 8 Tour of the North, 1792
- London - Welwyn - Biggleswade - Huntingdon - Wansford - Grantham - Newark - Barnby Moor - Doncaster - Ferrybridge - York - Wetherby - Knaresborough - Ripon - Middleham - Richmond - Barnard Castle - Askrigg - Ingleton - Settle - Skipton - Cliteroe - Rochdale - Manchester - Stockport - Disley - Macclesfield - Leek - Stoke-on-Trent - Newcastle-under-Lyme - Stafford - Wolverhampton - Dudley - Birmingham - Henley-in-Arden - Stratford-upon-Avon - Woodstock - Oxford - Henley - Slough - London
- 9 Tour into North Wales, 1793
- London - Bell Bar - Baldock - Bedford - Ketting - Market Harborough - Nuneaton - Coleshill - Dudley - Wenlock - Shrewsbury - Oswestry - Llangollen - Corwen - Bala - Festiniog - LLanwrst - Conway - Aber - Beaumaris - Conway - Llanrwst - Bala - Llanfyllin - Berriew - Shrewsbury - Norton Canes - Hinckley - Northampton - Bedford - Biggleswade - London
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