Author: Anthony Burton

When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester and built a canal to serve his coa...

This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, an...

The official guide to this superb National Trail, published in conjunction with Walk Unlimited. Comprehensive, this is the only companion you need...

Following the limestone escarpment on the Western edge of the Cotswolds, the 102 miles of the Cotswold Way take the walker through a quintessential...

The Ridgeway follows one of the oldest 'green roads' in Europe. It runs for 87 miles (140 km) from Overton Hill in the west, across the Marlborough...

Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain''s canal system. The book, which was first published i...

The eighteenth century saw the second Iron Age. Practically everything was made of iron: the machines of the Industrial Revolution; bridges and the...

For centuries, most textile manufacturing relied on people working in their own homes. All that changed in 1761 when Richard Arkwright began constr...

From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of t...

The British fishing fleet industry was one of huge importance: it was estimated that in late 19th century there were 22,000 merchant ships in the c...

Somewhere around 4000 BC, people in Britain began to give up their old hunter-gatherer way of life, instead raising livestock and planting crops: t...

Over 4,000 years of history lie in the seams of British mines, beginning all the way back in the New Stone Age. Large-scale coal mining in Britain ...