Author: Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author:
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Stuart Petre Brodie Mais
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Sidney Heath
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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The majority of our English counties possess some special feature, some particular attraction which acts as a lodestone for tourists, in the form of a stately cathedral, striking physical beauty, or a wealth of historical or literary associations. There are large districts of rural England that would have remained practically unknown to the multitude had it not been for their possession of some superb architectural creation, or for the fame bestowed upon the district by the makers of literature and art. The Bard of Avon was perhaps the unconscious pioneer in the way of providing his native town and county with a valuable asset of this kind. The novels of Scott drew thousands of his readers to the North Country, and those of R. D. Blackmore did the same for the scenes so graphically depicted in Lorna Doone; while Thomas Hardy is probably responsible for half the number of tourists who visit Dorset.

Author: Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Author: Sidney Heath
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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This work presents an incredible history of Cornwall, a historic and ceremonial county in South West England. The writer gives beautiful descriptions of the place and unknown facts that keep the readers curious. In addition, short biographies of famous personalities that lived there are included in the book.

Author: Great Western Railway (Great Britain)
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Michael Kent
Publisher: Alison Hodge Publishers
ISBN: 9780906720684
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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This book describes a 16-day walk around the coast of Cornwall, looking at different aspects of the county as observed from the coast path.

Author: Richard C. Long
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399002031
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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In 1963 comic duo Flanders and Swann composed Slow Train - a lament for some of the many railway lines proposed for closure by Dr Beeching. Among the destinations listed in their song is the refrain “from St Erth to St Ives”. Constructed in 1877 as the last broad gauge line to be built in the UK, the St Ives branch did not close in the 1960s and survives to this day – now widely regarded as one of the most scenic railways in Europe. How did it escape closure, and how did it come to be built in the first place? Why did the war departments of the world have their eyes on St Ives in the years before the First World War? How did a town once renowned for the inescapable smell of fish become one of the most popular tourist resorts in the UK? Did the Great Western Railway invent the Cornish Riviera? Why was a heliport proposed for St Erth? Where did a 32-ton ballast digger end-up in 2008? And how did two young men find themselves four miles from the nearest station in 1860...? Containing over 100 images, mostly in color and many never published before, this book sets out to answer these and many more questions.