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A History of Wiltshire, Volume I Part 2

Author: Elizabeth Crittall

Published: 1973

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Volume I(2) contains a series of chapters originally planned to accompany within a single volume a comprehensive gazetteer of Wiltshire's prehistoric remains. In the event the gazetteer was published as Volume I(1) in 1957 and thechapters are now appearing after a considerable lapse of time. Although the chapters are based largely upon the evidence contained in the gazetteer, the authors have taken account of relevant excavations and research undertaken since 1957. hardback ISBN 978-0-197-22735-0

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume II

Author: R.B. Pugh

Published: 1955

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire, Anglo-Saxon Art, Domesday. Indexed. hardback ISBN 978-0-712-91047-7

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume III

Author: R.B. Pugh

Published: 1956

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Ecclesiastical History, Industries, Roads, Canals, Railways, Population Table, Sport, Spas and Mineral Springs, Freemasonry, Forests. Indexed. hardback ISBN 978-0-712-91048-4

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume IX

Author: Elizabeth Crittall

Published: 1970

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Volume IX contains histories of Swindon, Wootton Bassett, and nine rural parishes. Special attention has been given to the development of New Swindon after the coming of the G.W.R. works in 1845, and to the effects of that development upon the small and ancient market town of Old Swindon. hardback ISBN 978-0-197-22736-7

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume VI

Author: Elizabeth Crittall

Published: 1962

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Wilton borough, Old Salisbury borough, New Salisbury city, Underditch hundred. Indexed. hardback ISBN 978-0-712-91032-3

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume VII

Author: R.B. Pugh

Published: 1953

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Bradford, Melksham, and Potterne and Cannings hundreds (including Bradford-on-Avon, Melksham, and Trowbridge). Indexed. hardback ISBN 978-0-712-91036-1

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume X

Author: Elizabeth Crittall

Published: 1975

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

The volume relates the histories of the borough of Devizes and of the 22 parishes in Swanborough hundred. It covers an area in the centre of Wiltshire, including the western end of the Vale of Pewsey, and ascending the escarpmentof the Marl-borough Downs to the north and that of Salisbury Plain to the south. Eastwards Swanborough extends to the Cheverells and the heavy clay-lands of west Wiltshire. hardback ISBN 978-0-197-22740-4

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume XI: Downton Hundred, Elstub and Everleigh Hundred

Author: D.A. Crowley

Published: 1980

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Volume XI contains the histories of two scattered hundreds. The parishes of Downton hundred are ranged along the southern county boundary, and those of Elstub and Everleigh hundred are centred on Enford in the Avon valley but have outliers throughout Wiltshire. Downton hundred represents the Wiltshire lands of the see of Winchester, Elstub and Everleigh the estates administered by the cathedral priory of St. Swithun, Winchester. hardback ISBN 978-0-197-22751-0

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume XII: Ramsbury Hundred, Selkley Hundred, The Borough of Marlborough

Author: D.A. Crowley

Published: 1983

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This volume contains the histories of the hundreds of Ramsbury and Selkley and of the borough of Marlborough. The area is mostly on the Marlborough Downs in the north-east quarter of Wiltshire. The Kennet flows east through both hundreds and skirts the town of Marlborough to the south. hardback ISBN 978-0-197-22759-6

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume XIII: South-West Wiltshire: Chalke and Dunworth Hundreds

Author: D.A. Crowley

Published: 1987

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Chalke and Dunworth hundreds are in south-west Wiltshire on the Dorset border. The parishes of Chalke hundred were united by being part of Wilton abbey's estate before the Norman Conquest, but most of the hundred is homogeneous. Long and narrow parishes lie north and south across the river Ebble and are characterized by extensive chalk downs. Until farmsteads were built on the downs in the 19th century, nearly all settlement was in small riverside villages. hardback ISBN 978-0-197-22769-5

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume XiV: Malmesbury Hundred

Author: D.A. Crowley

Published: 1991

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This volume contains the history of the town of Malmesbury and twenty surrounding parishes forming Malrnesbury hundred. The town evolved in the Anglo-Saxon period round the early monastic foundation: the town's position on a promontory between the Tetbury and Sherston branches of the Bristol Avon and the abbey's surviving buildings remain the town's most noticeable features. hardback ISBN 978-0-197-22779-4

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume XV: Amesbury Hundred, Branch and Dole Hundred

Author: D.A. Crowley

Published: 1995

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This volume contains the history of 25 parishes in Amesbury hundred and Branch and Dole hundred. Apart from the small towns of Amesbury and Lud-gershall the site of a small royal castle in the Middle Ages and a parliamentary borough, the area was agricultural, with little woodland. The parishes lie on chalk downland, mostly on the south-east part of Salisbury Plain, bearing many marks of prehistoric activity. hardback ISBN 978-0-197-22785-5

Price: £60.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume XVI: Kinwardstone Hundred

Author: D.A. Crowley

Published: 1999

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This volume relates the history of the 15 parishes in Kinwardstone hundred in east Wiltshire. The hundred lay between two medieval royal forests, Savernake and Chute. It is generally fertile and was devoted to sheep-and-corn husbandry. Each of c. 45 villages and hamlets in it had its own set of open fields and its own common pasture, and there is evidence of colonization from some of the larger villages. hardback ISBN 978-0-197-22793-0

Price: £75.00

A History of Wiltshire, Volume XVII: Calne

Author: D.A. Crowley

Published: 2002

Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Calne, a small town in north Wiltshire, stood on a large royal estate, and the witan met there - St Dunstan survived the partial collapse of a building at one meeting. It sent members to parliament from the thirteenth century, andit became a pocket borough in the eighteenth. hardback ISBN 978-1-904-35601-1

Price: £75.00

A Wiltshire Village

Author: Alfred Williams

Published: 1912

Medium: CD Publisher: Archive CD Books

Wonderful descriptions of life and characters of villages in the South Marston area based on the observations and recollections of the author.

Price: £12.13

Collections for a History of Seagry

Medium: CD Publisher: Archive CD Books

A cameo of the village of Seagry, Wiltshire.

Price: £9.79

Swindon Fifty Years Ago (More or less), Reminiscences, Notes and Relics of the Old Wiltshire Town

Published: 1885

Medium: CD Publisher: Archive CD Books

Historical details about people, places and lifestyles of those in Swindon before 1885. Include cloth workers, wool trade, workhouses, smuggling trade, Churches, Mills, Manors, Houses and popular amusements. Other sections cover Ghosts and the town's "characters". An amusing book that will tell you everything you need to know about Swindon town in the 1800s.

Price: £12.13


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