Dry Shod to Chippenham: a History of Maud Heath's Ancient Causeway in North Wiltshire

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2012 * Publisher: Ex Libris Press. Bradford-on-Avon. * Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers with four colour photos showing monuments and waterway. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning or colouration to page edges. FINE. * Illustrations: A number of b/w photos, maps and line drawings within text throughout. * Pages: 136 pp. text. cxii pp. appendices, notes, bibliography & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In 1474 the recently widowed Maud Heath gifted a substantial number of properties, in trust, so that the income from them could be used to erect and maintain a path to enable people to walk from Bremhill ?dry shod to Chippenham?. The history of this lady, her causeway and places of interest along its route, have been traced here, together with a varied cast of characters ranging from farmers, solicitors and inn-keepers, to antiquarian clergymen and a bishop, and even a serving Prime Minister of the 18th century. The book looks at life in Chippenham and its outlying villages, the development of rural roads and roadside monuments, and changes in religion and schooling.* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with absolutely minimal shelf wear.*