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Nantwich History Tour
Paul Hurley
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Description for Nantwich History Tour
Paperback. A guided tour of the historic town of Nantwich, showing how the areas you know and love have transformed over the centuries. Series: History Tour. Num Pages: 96 pages, 50. BIC Classification: 1DBKENC; HBTB; WQH; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156.
Nantwich has been a very important town from the earliest days. It is the oldest of the three Cheshire Wiches or Wyches from which salt has been drawn, the other two being Northwich and Middlewich. During Roman times Nantwich was famous for the salt that was recovered here, Welsh Row being so-named as it is the road the Welsh used to enter the town to collect salt. In fact, its ancient name was Helath Wen (`the town of white salt'); the present name is derived from Nant meaning `vale', and Wich meaning `a salt spring'. Other names for the town ... Read more
Nantwich has been a very important town from the earliest days. It is the oldest of the three Cheshire Wiches or Wyches from which salt has been drawn, the other two being Northwich and Middlewich. During Roman times Nantwich was famous for the salt that was recovered here, Welsh Row being so-named as it is the road the Welsh used to enter the town to collect salt. In fact, its ancient name was Helath Wen (`the town of white salt'); the present name is derived from Nant meaning `vale', and Wich meaning `a salt spring'. Other names for the town ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
History Tour
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445668727
SKU
V9781445668727
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-23
About Paul Hurley
Paul Hurley has been a freelance writer since 2002 and has been writing professionally ever since. He has had magazine, local and national newspaper credits and has written several books for Amberley on the local history of Cheshire. Since retiring from the police in 2002 he has amassed a CV that takes in a three part article in the Steam ... Read more
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