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DORSET (Pimlico County History Guide)
Richard Ollard
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Description for DORSET (Pimlico County History Guide)
Paperback. Dorset delights by its differences. It is a county of villages and small towns languidly spread over countryside that never remains the same. It has no university. It is a county brimming with history - Iron Age forts, saxon churches, remnants of the Civil War. This work takes you around the county, giving advice on where to go and what to do. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; WQH; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238. Clean copy
Dorset delights by its differences. It is a county of villages and small towns languidly spread over countryside that never remains the same for more than fifteen or twenty miles in any direction. There are no big towns - Bournemouth was only wrenched out of Hampshire a few years ago to help with the rates and has no Dorset characteristics. The county has no cathedral. It has no university. It has never fielded a first-class side at county Cricket. It hardly has any main through road. . . . Yet the last adjective that could be applied for Dorset is ... Read more
Dorset delights by its differences. It is a county of villages and small towns languidly spread over countryside that never remains the same for more than fifteen or twenty miles in any direction. There are no big towns - Bournemouth was only wrenched out of Hampshire a few years ago to help with the rates and has no Dorset characteristics. The county has no cathedral. It has no university. It has never fielded a first-class side at county Cricket. It hardly has any main through road. . . . Yet the last adjective that could be applied for Dorset is ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Pimlico
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712651974
SKU
KEX0243087
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Richard Ollard
Richard Ollard was born in 1923 and educated at Eton College. For twelve years from 1948 to 1959 Ollard taught history at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in London. In 1960 he joined the publisher Collins as a senior editor, where he worked until his retirement in 1983. Since his retirement from Collins he has continued to research and publish ... Read more
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