Medieval England, Volume 1Austin Lane Poole Clarendon Press, 1958 - 661 pages Volume 1 looks at the English countryside, domestic and military architecture, warefare, shipping, communications, towns & trade, coinage, clothing, arms & armor, and heraldry. |
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Page 196
... roads for the passage of armies and the purposes of trade . Direct routes to every part of the province radiated from London , its com mercial capital . With the end of Roman rule this road - system fell slowly into decay , although Roman ...
... roads for the passage of armies and the purposes of trade . Direct routes to every part of the province radiated from London , its com mercial capital . With the end of Roman rule this road - system fell slowly into decay , although Roman ...
Page 201
... roads . It may be that he inserted the line of a road only when he felt competent to note the distance between the places marked along it . He did not draw the line of the Northampton - Southampton road , but he put in Middleton Stoney ...
... roads . It may be that he inserted the line of a road only when he felt competent to note the distance between the places marked along it . He did not draw the line of the Northampton - Southampton road , but he put in Middleton Stoney ...
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... road from Preston to run on to Carlisle . Between places connected by a line of road the draughtsman inserted the mileage . The figure he gives is always less , and sometimes materially less , than the actual distance . When under ...
... road from Preston to run on to Carlisle . Between places connected by a line of road the draughtsman inserted the mileage . The figure he gives is always less , and sometimes materially less , than the actual distance . When under ...
Contents
in Economic History in the University of Oxford | 1 |
land and Fen 1417 4 The Moorlands 1819 5 The Monastic | 7 |
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TOWNPLAN | 37 |
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