Wessex
Series: National Trust Histories; National Trust histories
Publisher: G2 Entertainment Ltd; G2 Entertainment Ltd.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781782819684; 9781782811459
Subjects: Historic buildings; Wessex; Historic sites; Wessex (England); Description and travel; History
Description: The name 'Wessex' is full of echoes of the ancient past - of Stonehenge, Avebury and Silbury Hill - and of the regional novels of Thomas Hardy. The ploughing up of traditional downland pastures and the removal of ancient hedgerows, woodlands and wetlands from the vales have changed some of Hardy's windswept grasslands and dairy-rich lowlands. Even so, Wessex contains some fine countryside and a wealth of monuments of different ages. Besides the glories of the prehistoric legacy, there is much else to absorb in the later landscape: the great churches of Salisbury Cathedral and Sherborne Abbey.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Introduction; The Landscape and Early Man; Wealth from the Land; Roman Wessex; An English Kingdom; Castles and Clerics, Countrymen and Townsmen; War, Work and Elegance; Modern Times; Acknowledgments; Further Reading; Index.