General, Encyclopedias, Handbooks

This attractive guidebook shows off just how rich our waterways heritage is. This fully updated new edition highlights 55 of Britain”s most beautiful and interesting canals, with new photography, up …

” Haywood imprints his inimitable humour on his descriptions of the people and places he meets along the way.” – BBC Countryfile magazine ” He conjures up a picture of a different world, filled wi …

Come for a nostalgic journey along the scenic Cotswold route between Stratford-upon-Avon and Gloucester. This was a late addition to the GWR network and was important for freight flows to docks as we …

Boats are expensive and they are complicated – unless you are going to pay a professional to carry out a survey (at yet more expense) it is invaluable to be able to: – quickly assess a potential purc …

This is the only book linked to a practical surveying course. Highly practical in nature, and packed with detailed close-up photography, step by step procedures, and helpful checklists, this definiti …

Nothing encapsulates the essence of London quite like the red double-decker Routemaster bus. Its iconic design, since its 1956 inception, has become as much a symbol of the capital as St Paul”s or T …

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Opened in 1876 and closed to passengers in 1959, the Wye Valley Railway ran from Wye Valley Junction (just north of Chepstow) to Monmouth Troy. The scenic beauty of the lower Wye Valley, evident in m …

Canals of Britain is the most comprehensive and absorbing survey of Britain”s canal network ever published. It provides a fascinating insight into the linked up waterways as well as the isolated cut …