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Author Langlands, Alexander

Title The Ancient Ways of Wessex Travel and Communication in an Early Medieval Landscape
Published Havertown : Windgather Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (257 p.)
Contents Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1: LITERATURE REVIEW -- 1. The landscape of routes and communications -- 2. Travellers and journeys -- 3. From emporia to markets: trade networks in Wessex -- PART 2: THE CASE STUDIES -- 4. A note on the evidence: Anglo-Saxon charters and Ordnance Survey maps -- 5. Hampshire -- 6. Devon -- 7. Dorset -- 8. Wiltshire -- PART 3: DISCUSSION -- 9. Roman roads, wayside markers and gates -- 10. Bridges, herepaths, trade routes and the king's peace
Conclusion: Wessex and the early medieval world beyond -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Roads -- England -- History
Roads
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781911188544
1911188542