Ludlow Town And Neighborhood

Author : Oliver Baker
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ISBN 13 : 9781332153169
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Ludlow Town and Neighbourhood written by Oliver Baker and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ludlow Town and Neighbourhood: A Series of Sketches of Its Scenery, Antiquities, Geology, Drawn Described, in Described, Pen and Ink Some few years ago, whilst making additions to Wright's "Ludlow Guide" for Mr. Woolley, I undertook at his request to write and illustrate a more ambitious work, which has eventually taken the shape of the present volume. Its general plan was adopted, for the sake of brevity and to avoid the tedious repetitions to which topographical books are so liable. The purely historical portion has been only slightly treated, for several reasons. The documents which would have been essential to a serious historical treatise are bulky and numerous; it would have been easy to fill the book, or a much larger one, with deeds, charters, and churchwardens accounts; but apart from the difficulties as to space, they would have been to some extent out of place in a popular work. Many of these have been already published, and I have met people who collected them - but never anyone who read them. There was not much room, therefore, for original research in the historical branch of the subject, except where it was possible, by the examination of existing buildings, to throw light on their past, as for instance in the case of Bromfield Priory, in which important events at and subsequent to the Reformation are traced from the existing remains, apparently for the first time. This was a field which had remained comparatively untouched. I regret that in the case of the Guild College, I discovered the most interesting remains too late to insert more than a very slight notice of them. The large fourteenth-century window at the back of Church Street (which has low transoms and wooden shutters, showing it to be domestic work) would have been worth describing in detail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.