Trackway to Turnpike: The Old Roads of South Hereford [ISBN: 978 0 9534437 4 1]
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Regular price £8.29The development of roads in South Herefordshire from prehistoric times to the end of the turnpike age is a fascinating story and told here for the first time. The area lies between the Cathedral city of Hereford, Gloucestershires's Forest of Dean, Marcle Hill and the Welsh border, and includes the market towns of Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye. The author's careful research and experience helps the reader explore the highways and byways from scenic ridgeways to sunken lanes, and from coaching routes to twisting turnpikes. The study is the result of lengthy research and fieldwork, with detailed maps and drawings.
Since the first edition, further research has discovered that Isaac Taylor the map maker lived and worked the Ross-on Wye for over 20 years, George IV travelled through Ross 'almost unobserved' in 1821 and that a new road to Old Gore was completed in 1798. Readers will be pleased to know that the Dry Arch at Marstow was rebuilt in 1995, that a section of the old road to Wayne Green has been incorporated into the Three Castles Way, and that the inns of this book have been researched and recorded by the author. It is regrettable that many milestones and mileposts have been lost despite the efforts of local history groups and the Milestone society.