Author: Place, Allan:
Title: Routes Of Our Valley's Past. Some of the Old Roads In The Holme Valley Are Traced and Examined.
Description: Holme Valley Civic Society, 1999 Pbk, blue wraps, Good+, some label darkened patches, contents clean and tight, pp133. Examining the road origins and their development; topographical influences; history through 11th - 19th centuries; turnpike roads; the Enclosure Acts; bridges; decline and recovery and Valley Routes for example: Huddersfield to Berry Brow; Berry Brow to Holmfirth; Holmfirth to Holme Moss etc...

Keywords: Holme Valley routes roads highways River Holme Colne valleys valley past civic society origin development history topography influences travel


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