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Letters from Snowdon: descriptive of a tour through the Northern Counties of Wales. Containing the antiquities, history, and state of the country: with the manners and customs of the inhabitants.
Cradock, Joseph, 1742-1826.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]
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British curiosities in nature and art; exhibiting an account of natural and artificial rareties, both ancient and modern, intermixt with Historical and Geographical Passages. With a very particular Account of the Curiosities in London, and the Two Universities. And an appendix, concerning the posts, markets, and their fairs. To which is added A Scheme, containing other things most proper to be observed by Strangers, in 22 Respects, in as many Columns, curiously Engraved on a Sheet to fold up. The Whole, Adapted to the Use of Strangers, who may Travel to see England, and for such as go thence into Foreign Parts, in order to account for what is Remarkable in their own Country; as appeareth more clearly by the Preface.
Date: 1713
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A tour in Wales. MDCCLXX.
Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
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Letters from Snowdon: descriptive of a tour through the Northern counties of Wales. Containing the antiquities, history, and state of the country: with the manners and customs of the inhabitants.
Cradock, Joseph, 1742-1826.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]
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The traveller's companion, in a tour through England and Wales; containing a catalogue of the antiquities, houses, parks, plantations, scenes, and situations, in England and Wales, arranged according to the alphabetical order of the several counties; by the late Mr. Gray, Author of the Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard, &c.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.Date: [1800]
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A second walk through Wales, by the Revd. Richard Warner, of Bath. In August and September 1798.
Warner, Richard, 1763-1857.Date: 1800
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The travels of Tom Thumb over England and Wales; containing descriptions of whatever is most remarkable in the several counties. ... Written by himself; and adorned with a suitable map.
Thumb, Tom.Date: 1746
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A six weeks tour through the southern counties of England and Wales. Describing, particularly, I. The present state of agriculture and manufacture. II. The different methods of cultivating the soil. III. The success attending some late experiments on various grasses, &c. IV. The various prices of labour and provisions. V. The state of the working poor in those counties, wherein the riots were most remarkable. With descriptions and models of such new invented implements of husbandry as deserve to be generally known. Interspersed with accounts of the seats of the nobility and gentry, and other objects worthy of notice. In several letters to a friend. By the author of the Farmer's letters.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: M DCC LX Viii. [1768]
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A second walk through Wales, by the Revd. Richard Warner, of Bath, in August and September 1798.
Warner, Richard, 1763-1857.Date: 1799
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Travels over England, Scotland and Wales : giving a true and exact description of the chiefest cities, towns and corporations : together with the antiquities of divers other places, the most famous cathedrals, and other eminent structures, of several remarkable caves and wells, with many other diverting passages never before published / by James Brome, M.A. Rector of Cheriton in Kent ; the design of the said travels, being for the information of the two eldest sons of that eminent merchant Mr. Van-Ackar ; useful for all persons before they travel into foreign countries, and for all those who desire to be made acquainted with the situation and curiosities of these parts.
Brome, James, -1719.Date: 1707
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Britannia depicta or Ogilby improv'd; being a correct coppy of Mr. Ogilby's actual survey of all [th]e direct & principal cross roads in England and Wales: Wherein are exactly delineated & engraven, all [th]e cities, towns, villages, churches, seats &. scituate on or near the roads, with their respective distances in measured and computed miles. And to render this-work universally usefull & agreeable, (beyond any of it's kind) are added in a clear & most compendious method. 1. A full & particular description & account of all the cities, borough-towns, towns-corporate &c. their arms, antiquity, charters, privileges, trade, rarities &c. with suitable remarks on all places of note drawn from the best historians and antiquaries. By Ino. Owen of the Midd: Temple Gent. 2. The arms of the peers of this realm who derive their titles from places lying on or near the roads 3. The arms of all [th]e bishopricks & deanaries, their foundation, extent, yearly-value, number of parishes &c. 4. The arms, & a succinct account of both universities & their respective colleges, their foundations fellowships &c Lastly particular & correct maps-of all [th]e counties of South Britain; with a summary description of each county, its circumference, number of acres, borô & market towns & parishes, air, soil, com̄odities, manufactures & what each pays in [th]e ... aid &c. The whole for its compendious variety & exactness, preferable to all other books of roads hitherto published or proposed; and calculated not only for the direction of the traveller (as they are) but the general use of the gentleman and tradesman By Eman: Bowen engraver.
Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767.Date: 1759
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The new description and state of England, containing the mapps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, Newly Design'd, Exactly Drawn and Engraven by the Best Artists. The several Counties described, the Account of their Ancient and Modern Names, Extent, Soil, Former and Present Inhabitants, their Number, Rarities, Market-Towns, and Days whereon the Markets are kept, Hundreds, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Bridges, Minerals, Commodities, Number of Acres, what Proportion each County pays to the Land-Tax, Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Cathedrals, Parish-Churches, Schools, Hospitals, Roads and Distances, Roman Ways, Post-Towns, Men of Note, Memorable Battles and Actions, the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry, an Account of Fairs, &c. To which is added, a new and exact list of the House of Peers and Commons, and of the Lord-Lieutenants of each County, of the Army, Navy, Officers and Offices, &c. belonging to this kingdom.
Morden, Robert, -1703.Date: 1701
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A tour from Dublin to London, in 1795, through the Isle of Anglesea, Bangor, Conway, ... and Kensington. by John Ferrar.
Ferrar, John, 1743-Date: 1796
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Letters describing a tour through part of South Wales. By a pedestrian traveller. With views, designed and etched by the author.
Penhouet, Armand-Louis-Bon Maudet, comte de, 1764-1839.Date: 1797
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A walk through Wales, in August 1797, by the Revd. Richard Warner, of Bath.
Warner, Richard, 1763-1857.Date: 1799
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The traveller's guide through England and Wales: containing, I. The routs [sic] from stage to stage ... IV. Separate alphabetical tables of all cities, ... To which is prefixed, the largest, most accurate, and compleat map ... By Thomas Kitchin, ...
Kitchin, Thomas, -1784.Date: 1783
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Letters from Snowdon: descriptive of a tour through the northern counties of Wales. Containing the Antiquities, History, and State of the Country; with the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. The Second Edition. To which is added, An Account of the Inns and Roads, with Directions for Travellers.
Cradock, Joseph, 1742-1826.Date: 1777
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A letter from Fisher and Johnson to Tyburn Jack-Ketch the turn-keys and goalers of Newgate.
Fisher, H.Date: [1720?]
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The cambrian directory, or, cursory sketches of the Welsh territories. With a chart, comprehending at one view, the advisable route - best inns - distances - and objects most worthy of attention.
Cliff, of Worcester.Date: 1800
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Observations on the river Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to picturesque beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770. By William Gilpin, M. A. Prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New Forest, near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]
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A tour through part of North Wales, in the year 1798, And At Other Times; principally undertaken with a view to botanical researches In that Alpine Country: interspersed with observations on its scenery, agriculture, manufactures, customs, history, and antiquities. By the Rev. J. Evans, B. A. Late Of Jesus College, Oxon.
Evans, J. (John), active 1812.Date: [1800]
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Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to picturesque beauty: made in the summer of the year 1770. By William Gilpin, M. A. Prebendary of Salisbury, and Vicar of Boldre near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: 1800
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Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the Summer of the year 1770. By William Gilpin, ...
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: 1800
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A journey through England. In familiar letters. From a gentleman here, to his friend abroad. In two volumes. Containing What is Curious in the Counties of, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Middlesex, London, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, and Huntington, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wales, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man, &c. Vol. I.
Macky, John, -1726.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]
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A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales. Containing, I. An Alphabetical List of all the Cities, Towns, and remarkable Villages; with their Market-Days, and Counties they are situated in. II. The Direct Roads from London to all the Cities, Borough, Market, and Sea-Port Towns; shewing the Distance from each City, Town, or Village, to the next on the same Road; with their Distance from London, and an Account of the remarkable Seats that are near the Road. III. The Cross Roads of England and Wales. IV. The Circuits of the Judges in England. V. An Index to the Country Seats. The Whole on a Plan entirely new, and far preferable to any Work of the Kind extant. By Daniel Paterson, Assistant to the Quarter-Master-General of His Majesty's Forces.
Paterson, Daniel, 1738-1825.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]