Rural Rides ~ William Cobbett (Diaries 1820s/30's)

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Vintage

Hard Cover Book

No Date

Circa 1934?

RURAL RIDES

By

William Cobbett

Publisher T. Nelson & Sons

Old Hardback book comes to you in used condition

No Dustjacket

There is fading, bumping and wear to the red hard cloth covers

Some foxing and browning, some of  pages and edges are quite brown

There is some cracking where the pages joint the spine

CONTENTS  INTACT

570 Printed Pages

CONTENTS: (In Brief)

(These diary recording commence October 30^th, 1821)

Travel diaries from the 1820s & 30’s

·        RURAL RIDES:

·        From London through Newbury to Burghclere, Hurstbourn Tarrant, Marlborough and Cirencester to Gloucester

·        From Gloucester to Bollitree in Herefordshire, Ross, Hereford, Abingdon, Oxford, Cheltenham, Burghclere, Whitchurch, Uphurstbourn, and thence to Kingston

·        From Kensington to Dartford, Rochester, Chatham and Faversham

·        Norfolk and Suffolk Journal

·        From Kensington to Battle, through Bromley, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge

·        Through Croydon, Godstone, East Grinstead, and Uckfield, to Lewes and Brighton, returning by Cuckfield, Worth and Red-Hill

·        From London, through Ware and Royston to Huntingdon

·        From Kensington to St. Albans, through Edgware, Stanmore and Watford, returning by Redbourn, Hempstead and Chesham

·        From Kensington to Uphusband, including a Rustic Harangue at Winchester, at a Dinner with the Farmers

·        Through Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex

·        From Kensington to Worth, in Sussex

·        From the (London) Wen across Surrey, across the West of Sussex, and into the South East of Hampshire

·        Through the South East of Hampshire back through the south West of Surrey, along the Weald of Surrey and then over the Surrey Hills down to the Wen

·        Through the North East part of Sussex, and all across Kent, from the Weald of Sussex, to Dover

·        From Dover through the Isle of Thanet, by Canterbury and Faversham, across to Maidstone, up to Tonbridge, through the Weald of Kent and over the Hills by Westerham and Hays to the Wen

·        From Kensington across Surrey and along that county

·        From Chilworth in Surrey to Winchester

·        From Winchester to Burghclere

·        From Burghclere to Petersfield

·        From Petersfield to Kensington

·        Down the Valley of the Avon in Wiltshire

·        From Salisbury to Warminster, from Warminster to Frome, from Frome to Devizes and from Devizes to Highworth

·        From Highworth to Crcilade and thence to Malmsbury

·        From Malmsbury to Wiltshire through Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire

·        Ride from Ryall to Worcestershire to Burghclere, in Hampshire

·        Ride from Burghclere to Lyndhurst in the New Forest

·        From Lyndhurst to Beaulieu Abbey, thence to Southampton and Weston, thence to Botley, Allington, West End, near Hambledon and thence to Petersfield, Thursley and Godalming

·        From Weston, near Southampton to Kensington

·        To Tring in Herfordshire

·        Northern Tour

·        Eastern Tour

·        Midland Tour

·        Tour in the West

·        Progress in the North

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