A br&-new book in our Pub Walks series, this volume guides the walker to some of the best, most beautiful places in Dorset. The country pubs, upon which each walk is based, have all been chosen for their good food, range of ales, history & character. The 20 circular walks vary in length from 2 & a half
- 5 & three quarter miles. The walks include coastal paths at Kingston, Abbotsbury & Eype; woodland walks at Lytchett Minster, Corfe Mullen & Stoke Abbot; downland routes at Sixpenny Handley, Horton & Corfe Castle; & riverside walks at Tarrant Gunville, Moreton, Shillingstone & Hinton St Mary. In addition there are also walks in pretty valleys as at Winterbourne Stickland & Cattistock & through picturesque villages such as Loders & Piddletrenthide. Along the way there is the chance to see Sturt`s Folly, a six-storey brick tower; the grave of Lawrence of Arabia; a church pulpit canopy with two bullet holes in it; a Roman road; stained-glass windows by Lawrence Whistler; the pub where Thomas Hardy was a regular & several old railway trackbeds.
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About this series Pub-walk guides to the counties of England with circular walks mostly in the order of from three to five miles. Walks are cross-referenced to Ordnance Survey Landranger maps & the description for each is accompanied by a simple sketched route plan. Every pub has a detailed description that indicates the type of food & drinks served, whether children & dogs are welcomed, location & parking facilities. ...

' If your companion is walking far ahead, it can be fun to close one eye & hold her between your thumb & forefinger, taking care in case she slips from your grasp, or, conversely, you crush her altogether!' Graham Underhill is a much-loved local water colourist, ale enthusiast, & self-published guidebook writer
- the ' Wainwright of the West Midlands'. But our narrator & guide is a rambler in more ways than one, & what begins as a set of walk instructions soon gives way to what Graham would rather talk about
- mostly, his marriage to the beautiful & erudite Sunita. When a well-connected environmentalist & would-be MP takes an interest in Sunita's childhood memoir Graham's happiness seems complete. Or it would, were it not for the shoddy state of the local footpath network. & inconsiderate mountain bikers. Litter louts, pretentious landscape photographers, idiots who consider light trainers suitable for mountainous terrain, & the Highways Agency's plan to build a bypass through his house. At least he has his beloved Sunita. Or does he? Graham, it turns out, is not always the most reliable guide. & neither is ' Underhill Country' the sleepy idyll it seems... Cunning, hilarious & heartbreaking, Nat Segnit's debut novel is a guidebook to stubborn optimism in the face of marital
- & environmental
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` If your companion is walking far ahead, it can be fun to close one eye & hold her between your thumb & forefinger, taking care in case she slips from your grasp, or, conversely, you crush her altogether!` Graham Underhill is a much-loved local water colourist, ale enthusiast, & self-published guidebook writer
- the ` Wainwright of the West Midlands`. But our narrator & guide is a rambler in more ways than one, & what begins as a set of walk instructions soon gives way to what Graham would rather talk about
- mostly, his marriage to the beautiful & erudite Sunita. When a well-connected environmentalist & would-be MP takes an interest in Sunita`s childhood memoir Graham`s happiness seems complete. Or it would, were it not for the shoddy state of the local footpath network. & inconsiderate mountain bikers. Litter louts, pretentious landscape photographers, idiots who consider light trainers suitable for mountainous terrain, & the Highways Agency`s plan to build a bypass through his house. At least he has his beloved Sunita. Or does he? Graham, it turns out, is not always the most reliable guide. & neither is ` Underhill Country` the sleepy idyll it seems... Cunning, hilarious & heartbreaking, Nat Segnit`s debut novel is a guidebook to stubborn optimism in the face of marital
- & environmental
- meltdown.



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If you enjoy walking & visiting country pubs this book should appeal. All the inns are in the area close to Bristol & Bath & are surrounded by excellent walking country. Every walk begins & ends at a particular pub. They vary in length from 2 to 7 miles & each route is described in detail with an accompanying sketch map. There are quiet strolls through woodland & over fields, in secluded river valleys & by lakes, & ascents to spots with magnificent views. You can walk beside the Severn Estuary, climb above Cheddar Gorge, & visit picturesque villages such as Wiltshire's Lacock, Somerset's Nunney, & Litton in the Mendip Hills. There are also walks from the interesting towns of Wotton, on the edge of the Cotswolds; from Chew Magna; & from Clevedon, with its Victorian pier. All thirty pubs are described in full, with a photograph, & details given include their history & character, how to get there, parking facilities, speciality menus & their range of ales. ...

One of six books in the Yorkshire Dales: Top 10 Walks series. This attractive & cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the finest pub walks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an overview & introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, Ordnance Survey maps, superb, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, & interpretation of points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard in clarity & ease-of-use. Featured walks include: the White Lion Inn, Cray; Rose & Crown Inn, Bainbridge; Buck Hotel, Reeth; New Inn, Clapham; George & Dragon, Dent; Craven Arms, Appletreewick; Falcon Inn, Littondale; Bolton Arms, Redmire; Buck Inn, Malham; Red Lion, Langthwaite. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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This is a richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women`s Prize & the Costa Novel Award & shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we`ve read over our lives
- our own personal libraries
- make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith`s new collection are about what we do with books & what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser & ageless all at once; how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make. Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community & discovery
- & right now they are under threat from funding cuts & widespread closures across the UK & further afield. With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries & celebrate their true place in our culture & history.


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Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 300mm x 200mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
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Bristol has an abundance of fine public sculpture adorning its streets, buildings, parks & squares. This volume draws attention to over 200 works of sculpture &

Includes:: over 400 illustrations. Bristol has been a major regional centre for over a thousand years & its fascinating history is reflected in its monuments, just as much of the history of British sculpture is reflected in the public monuments within the city. The wealth of information that this volume makes conveniently available for the first time will enable Bristol to plan for the care & conservation of this rich heritage. Rysbrack`s William III in Queen Square is the finest equestrian monument in Northern Europe. It was also once the most famous public sculpture in Britain. In the eighteenth century, when Bristol was commissioning major works of art from leading artists of the day, the city was also impressively self sufficient with a number of local workshops & an outstanding dynasty of native sculptors & architects in the Paty family. In the nineteenth century notable Bristol sculptors were to move to London, including E.H. Baily, James Havard Thomas & C.J. Pibworth, but each returned to Bristol to execute important commissions. The tradition of rich architectural sculpture established by the Patys was to be continued to outstanding effect by Foster & Wood in the nineteenth century & well into the twentieth century by Sir George Oatley. Bristol has also been quick to recognise the role of sculpture in urban renewal & regeneration. The three sculptures on Baltic Wharf are early & fine examples. More recently still, there have been works that have challenged & expanded our understanding of the medium itself. It is this continuity of interest & quality that makes the sculpture of this city of special interest. Public sculpture has been defined very widely to include not only open-air sculpture but also architectural sculpture & notable sculpture inside public & semi-public buildings. Sculptures inside museums & art galleries & ecclesiastical sculpture are, as with other volumes in the series, excluded from the catalogue, but for the first time this volume

Includes:: a revealing essay on Bristol`s church monuments by Katharine Eustace.



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