THE DROVERS: WHO THEY WERE AND HOW THEY WENT
Written by K.J. Bonser
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
in 1970
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- FARMING
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Front cover
Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Beginnings of Droving
- 2. The Scottish and the English Drover
- 3. The Welsh Droving Trade
- 4. The Beats and Birds They Drove
- 5. Shoes and Shoeing
- 6. Turnpikes, Tolls, Tallies and Enclosures
- 7. Finance and Economics of Droving
- 8. Murrain, Cattle Plague and other Afflictions
- 9. Salt and Scurvy
- 10. The Drover in Ballad, Song and Verse
- 11. Fairs and Markets
- 12. Drove Roads from the Scottish Border
- 13. Drove Roads through Yorkshire
- 14. The Hambleton Drove Road
- 15. Drove Roads from the Welsh Border
- 16. East Anglia and the Drovers
- 17. The Last Stageg
- 18. The End of an Epoch
- Appendixes:
- A. Evidence from Old Milestones, Maps and Road Books on the Approach to London
- B. 'Swearing on the Horns', Horn Fairs and Other Ceremonies
- C. The Pennine Way
- Bibliography
- Index of Places
- General Index