Originally published in London 1903 by
MacMillan & Co., Ltd., this 1914 reprint of the Highways and Byways
in South Wales, is republished here on fully-searchable CD-ROM.
Macmillan began publishing the Highways and Byways series in 1899 and
by 1909 had completed almost twenty publications in the series, which
extended across the length and breadth of England, Scotland and Wales,
with one publication on Normandy and and another on Ireland. This
highly popular series continued until the beginning of the Second World
War.
The Highways and Byways in South Wales
contains more than 400 printed pages, including a map of the route
taken by the author, Arthur Grenville Bradley, who undertook an almost
circular tour of south Wales beginning at Radnor, and includes almost
100 pen and ink illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs, providing as with
all of the Highways and Byways series a wonderful mix of topography,
local history and folklore, which perhaps more than ever allows the
reader to rediscover parts of Britain that have long disappeared under
a morass of concrete, motorways and bypasses.
Arthur
Bradley undertook only thirteen 'tours' on which he reported in the
Highways and Byways in South Wales, reviewed in the chapters of this
publication, although in reality the divisions are only created by the
major stops in Bradley's tour, such as Radford; Builth;Lampeter;
Cardigan; Fishguard; St. Davids; Pembroke; Kidwelly; Llandeilofawr and
Brecknock.
Much of the charm a vigour of the Highways and
Byways series, which has stood the test of time is down to the
travellers and in the case of South Wales this is no exception.
High quality scanned images of the whole of the original book. This CD has been bookmarked for easy navigation, and pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
