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Author | : Tony Gowers |
Publisher | : Aurum Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781781315774 |
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Offa's Dyke Path (Gogledd Llwybr Clawdd Offa) is the 177-mile National Trail following the ancient earthwork that criss-crosses the border country of modern England and Wales, from the Severn Estuary to the seaside resort of Prestatyn on the Irish Sea. This is the complete, official guide for the long-distance walker or the weekend stroller. All you need is this one book. It contains: * the route split into convenient sections * Ordnance Survery mapping for the entire route * comprehensive, up-to-date information on public transport, accommodation and places of interest * background information on everything from archaeology to wildlife * lavishly illustrated with colour photography throughout
Author | : Ernest Kay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Offa's Dyke (Wales and England) |
ISBN | : 9781854109767 |
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Author | : Jim Saunders |
Publisher | : Gomer Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Offa's Dyke (Wales and England) |
ISBN | : |
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This is the first comprehensive book on Offa's Dyke for over 50 years. It is attractively produced with lots of colour illustrations and maps, and will be of great interest to a wide range of historians, archaeologists and general readers. The author Keith Ray is a highly experienced archaeologist, specialising in Prehistory.
Author | : Ian Coulthard |
Publisher | : Sigma Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781850587262 |
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Author | : George Tod |
Publisher | : Cicerone Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1783627689 |
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Dubbed 'the mountain connoisseurs' walk', the Cambrian Way stretches 479km between the mighty castles of Cardiff in the south and Conwy on the north coast. Traversing the heartland of Wales, the challenging route crosses the Brecon Beacons, the Cambrian Mountains and Snowdonia, passing through two national parks and visiting many of the country's iconic summits, including Pen y Fan, Pumlumon, Cadair Idris and Snowdon itself. It can be walked in three weeks (or in shorter sections) and is suitable for experienced hillwalkers with sound navigational skills. The guide presents the route in 21 stages, offering comprehensive route description illustrated with OS 1:50,000 mapping and elevation profiles. Details of accommodation and facilities are provided, along with a helpful trek planner showing their distribution along the route: although the trail passes through remote areas, it is possible to stay under a roof every night - though camping is also a possibility, should you prefer. There are background notes on Wales's history and geology and local points of interest, and a glossary of Welsh place-names, useful contacts and accommodation listings can be found in the appendices. From the Black Mountains to the Rhinogau, Glyderau and Carneddau, the route takes in lofty ridges, striking peaks and picturesque lakes. There are also fascinating glimpses into the country's ancient and more recent past: Iron Age hillforts, Norman castles, a Cistercian abbey, the Chartist Cave and relics from the mining industry. Offering superlative scenery, the Cambrian Way is a celebration of some of the best mountain walking Wales has to offer and promises a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in these celebrated landscapes.
Author | : Kate Spencer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Backpacking |
ISBN | : 9780905136158 |
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Author | : Keith Ray |
Publisher | : Windgather Press |
Total Pages | : 858 |
Release | : 2014-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1909686190 |
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The massive ancient earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary national walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we still do not fully understand how or why Britain's largest linear monument was built, and in recent years, the views of those who have studied the Dyke have diverged even as to such basic questions as its physical extent and date of construction. This book provides a fresh perspective on the creation of Offa's Dyke arising from over a decade of study and of conservation practice by its two authors. It also provides a new appreciation of the specifically Mercian and English political context of its construction. The authors first summarise what is known about the Dyke from archaeology and history and review the debates surrounding its form and purpose. They then set out a systematic approach to understanding the design and construction of the massive linear bank and ditch that has come to stand proxy for the Anglo-Welsh border. What can currently be deduced about the build qualities of the Dyke are then summarised from the authors' recent (and newly intricate) study of details of its localised form and construction and its landscape setting. The authors meanwhile also explain Offa's Dyke as an instrument of late 8th-century Mercian statecraft and the imperial ambitions of Offa himself.
Author | : David Hill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Presents a detailed description and analysis of Offa's Dyke that is set against the background of the political and social context of the kingdom of Mercia, over which King Offa ruled from 757 to 796. This book offers a fresh interpretation of the Dyke's line, length and purpose. It is suitable for academics, amateur historians and archaeologists.
Author | : Mike Dunn |
Publisher | : Cicerone Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2023-06-14 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1783622989 |
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This guidebook - which includes both a guide to the route and a separate OS map booklet - describes Offa's Dyke Path National Trail from south to north, following the longest linear earthwork in Britain, running 177 miles along the English-Welsh border between Sedbury (near Chepstow) and Prestatyn on the north Wales Coast. The book splits one of Britain's classic trails into 12 stages suitable for walkers of all abilities. Step-by-step route descriptions are accompanied by 1:100,000 OS map extracts. Also included with this guidebook is a booklet of 1:25,000 OS maps, which provides all the mapping needed to complete the trail in a compact form. A trek planner gives at a glance information about facilities, public transport and accommodation available along the route. The walk is astonishingly varied, taking in the lower Wye gorge, the Severn and the Dee rift valley, the pastures and woodlands of the border country, the remote moorland of the Black Mountains and the Clwydian range, and the dramatic limestone escarpments of Eglwyseg mountain. What makes it even more special is over 60 miles walking alongside the Saxon earthwork of Offa's Dyke.
Author | : Bruce Chatwin |
Publisher | : Jonathan Cape |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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A tale of two brothers (identical twins) who stay in the farmhouse on the English-Welsh border where they were born, tilling the rough soil and sleeping in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advance of the 20th century.