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Author : Charles Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Old Cornish Bridges and Streams written by Charles Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel J. Rogal
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476623678
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Wesleys in Cornwall, 1743-1789 written by Samuel J. Rogal and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nearly a half-century of missionary work throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, brothers John and Charles Wesley found the southwestern county of Cornwall to be among their most serious theological and social challenges. Eighteenth-century Cornwall lacked population centers, and small towns and villages were isolated by inadequate roads. The adult population consisted mainly of miners, fisherman and smugglers--men more interested in the bulk of their pocketbooks than in the status of their souls. And the clergy of the Church of England overwhelmingly opposed the Wesleys and their itinerant preachers, encouraging Anglicans to disrupt the Wesleys' outdoor services and to attack and burn Methodist preaching houses. Although the Wesleys made some evangelical progress in Cornwall, the question remained upon John Wesley's death in 1791: did the mission to Cornwall succeed or fail? This book considers the mission with a close reading of the Wesleys writings, and covers the overall history of 18th-century British Methodism and its contribution to the religious and social history of the British Empire.
Author : David Featherstone Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199272743
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Bridges of Medieval England written by David Featherstone Harrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval bridges are startling achievements of civil engineering, which prove the importance of road transport and the sophistication of the medieval economy. The Bridges of Medieval England rewrites their history, offering new insights into many aspects of the subject. It has profound implications for our understanding of pre-industrial economy and society, challenging accepted accounts of the development of medieval trade and communications and showing continuities from the Anglo-Saxon period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Author : David McFetrich
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526752964
Total Pages : 1301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges written by David McFetrich and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 1301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An already impressive reference work has been made significantly more valuable . . . a well-illustrated alphabetized compendium of notable bridges.” —The Happy Pontist Bridges have a universal appeal as examples of man’s mastery of nature, from picturesque packhorse bridges to great spans stretching across broad estuaries, and the development of the technology that allows ever more audacious constructions is never-ending. Of the million or more bridges throughout Great Britain, David McFetrich has selected those that are significant in terms of their design, construction or location, or of their connections with people or events of history. His definitive book contains 1,600 separate entries for individual bridge sites or related groups of bridges covering more than 2,000 different structures, 165 general entries about different types of bridge and such topics as collapses and failures, and a summary of about 200 record-holding bridges in 50 different categories. The concise text is supported by more than 900 illustrations and diagrams. The result is a fascinating and readily accessible compendium. The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICA) is also on board. “A valuable resource to use . . . if you plan to visit some of these structures while on holiday or are merely planning a day out.” —East Yorkshire Family History Society “Well-written and researched and eminently readable . . . Because of the ubiquity of bridges throughout Great Britain, this volume should have wide appeal.” —NZ Crown Mines “Full of details covering the many bridges around the UK . . . I found it fascinating to see the variety of bridges around Britain, even the ones not railway related.” —Rail Advent
Author : Marshall G. Hall
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1914427157
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Medieval Bridges of Southern England written by Marshall G. Hall and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them. It is no coincidence that all four of the earliest human civilizations were formed on great rivers: the Nile, Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers all saw great human aggregation along them. The most ancient and vital architectural structures linked to the use of rivers are bridges. There are a wide range of medieval bridge structures, some very simple in their construction, to amazing triumphs of design and engineering comparable with the great churches of the period. They stand today as proof of the great importance of transport networks in the Middle Ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval economy. These bridges were built in some of the most difficult places, across broad flood plains, deep tidal waters, and steep upland valleys, and they withstood all but the most catastrophic floods. Yet their beauty, from simplistic to ornate, remains for us to appreciate. Medieval Bridges of Southern England has been organized geographically into tours and covers the governmental regions of Southwest England, London, and Southeast England. There are exactly 100 bridges included. There is an introduction and background information about the medieval period of English history at the beginning and there are beautiful full color photographs throughout the book.
Author : S. J. Drake
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783274697
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century written by S. J. Drake and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The links between Cornwall, a county frequently considered remote and separate in the Middle Ages, and the wider realm of England are newly discussed. Winner of The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies (FOCS) Holyer an Gof Cup for non-fiction, 2020. Stretching out into the wild Atlantic, fourteenth-century Cornwall was a land at the very ends of the earth. Within itsboundaries many believed that King Arthur was a real-life historical Cornishman and that their natal shire had once been the home of mighty giants. Yet, if the county was both unusual and remarkable, it still held an integral place in the wider realm of England. Drawing on a wide range of published and archival material, this book seeks to show how Cornwall remained strikingly distinctive while still forming part of the kingdom. It argues that myths, saints, government, and lordship all endowed the name and notion of Cornwall with authority in the minds of its inhabitants, forging these people into a commonalty. At the same time, the earldom-duchy and the Crown together helped to link the county into the politics of England at large. With thousands of Cornishmen and women drawn east of the Tamar by the needs of the Crown, warfare, lordship, commerce, the law, the Church, and maritime interests, connectivity with the wider realm emerges as a potent integrative force. Supported by a cast of characters ranging from vicious pirates and gentlemen-criminals through to the Black Prince, the volume sets Cornwall in the latest debates about centralisation, devolution, and collective identity, about the nature of Cornishness and Englishness themselves. S.J. DRAKE is a Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Research. He was born and brought up in Cornwall.
Author : Ted Ruddock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351919288
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts written by Ted Ruddock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 2,000 years the most durable spanning structures have been built of masonry, and the surviving bridges of the Roman Empire have challenged master masons, architects and engineers to emulate and surpass them. Down the centuries, bridge-builders have been commissioned by monarchs, bishops, councils of state, cities, private individuals and, more recently, waterway and railway companies. The studies collected in this volume focus chiefly on the bridges, viaducts and aqueducts themselves and the actions of the designers and builders, but also encompass the political, economic and social contexts and outcomes of their creation. Famous bridges in Britain, Italy, France, Iran and the USA are all featured. Narratives of conception, design and construction predominate, but there are also papers on construction techniques, on the analysis of documentary sources, and on the continuing search by modern engineers for satisfactory scientific description of the strength and stability of arch bridges.
Author : Frank Michell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Annals of an Ancient Cornish Town written by Frank Michell and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Perthshire Society of Natural Science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science written by Perthshire Society of Natural Science and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. J. G. Pounds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521633512
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)
Download or read book A History of the English Parish written by N. J. G. Pounds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'grass roots' cultural history of the English parish from the earliest times to Queen Victoria.
Author : Peter Herring
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1848021380
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Bodmin Moor: An archaeological survey: Volume 2 written by Peter Herring and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodmin Moor is an upland landscape, heavily protected, farmed extensively and with an increasingly light touch, and enjoyed by many as a retreat from busier modern worlds. But it is also a place of industry and the home of busy agricultural communities. Well-preserved remains of streamworking, mining, quarrying, clay working, turf cutting and more intensive farming were subjected to archaeological survey and historical research as part of the wider-ranging survey partly covered in the first volume (on prehistoric and medieval landscapes). Supplementing the survey text are aerial photographs and detailed line drawings, mainly plans and elevations, but also reconstructions of sites and schematic representations of processes as well as large-scale maps of key areas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Borlase
Publisher : Oxford, For the Author; by W. Jackson: Sold by W. Sandby, London; and the Booksellers of Oxford. 1758.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Natural History of Cornwall written by William Borlase and published by Oxford, For the Author; by W. Jackson: Sold by W. Sandby, London; and the Booksellers of Oxford. 1758.. This book was released on 1758 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest William Lunn Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Wanderer in the West Country written by Ernest William Lunn Martin and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Sessional Notices, with Abstracts of Original Communications Received and Ordered by the Council to be Published written by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Buildings of England: Cornwall written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. A. Otter
Publisher : Thomas Telford
ISBN 13 : 9780727719713
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Southern England written by R. A. Otter and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1994 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide covers from Cornwall to Kent, including Somerset and parts of Wiltshire and Surrey. It provides an informative look at some of the internationally renowned examples of historic development and engineering skills throughout southern England, including such examples as: Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse.
