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About This Book

This guide offers motor-car itineraries across Shropshire, North, Central and South Wales and the Wye Valley, combining practical routes and short runs with descriptive sketches of towns, castles, abbeys, and rural scenery. It mixes driving directions and recommended stops with historical anecdotes and architectural notes, suggesting inns, viewpoints, and detours. Photographs, maps, and illustrations accompany the itineraries to aid navigation and evoke landscape character. Occasional local stories and brief cultural observations enrich the practical travel information for motorists seeking scenic routes and antiquarian interest.

UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, PRINTERS, WOKING AND LONDON.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Latin inscription on the wall that used to surround the tree.—Duke’s Version.

[2] Since these words were written there have been extensive excavations at Haughmond, by which important disclosures have been made.

[3] Transactions of the Archæological Society of Shropshire.

[4] Transactions of the Archæological Society of Shropshire.

[5] Gentleman’s Magazine, August, 1906.

[6] “The History of Fulk Fitz-Warine,” translated by Alice Kemp-Welch.

[7] I have seen somewhere that the original name of these falls was not Rhaiadr y Wennol, or Swallow Falls, but Rhaiadr Eweynol, or Foaming Falls. This seems probable: but Borrow accepted the former version, and he was a stern critic in such matters.

[8] Quotations from the “Mabinogion” are from Lady Charlotte Guest’s translation.

[9] Sic.

[10] “The Book of South Wales,” by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.

[11] “The March and Borderland of Wales,” by A. G. Bradley.

[12] Rev. S. Baring-Gould, “The Book of South Wales.”

[13] “The Norman Horse-shoe” (Sir Walter Scott.)

 


 

Transcriber's Note:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including some inconsistencies in hyphenation. Some minor corrections of spelling have been made.