Packmen, Carriers, and Packhorse Roads
| Author | : David Hey |
| Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
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The Old Roads of Derbyshire
| Author | : Stephen Bailey |
| Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2019-04-16 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1789018439 |
Derbyshire has a wealth of old roads, lanes, tracks, hollow ways and paths, some dating back thousands of years. It is a network which links a fascinating variety of sometimes enigmatic monuments, from fortified hilltops and stone circles to ruined abbeys and hermitages, ancient churches and tumuli. The Old Roads of Derbyshire traces the development of these roads, from prehistoric ridgeways, Roman ‘streets’ and medieval pilgrimage routes to the growth of the turnpikes, and finally to leisure use by cyclists and hikers. Travellers of all kinds are included: ‘jaggers’ with their packhorse trains, pilgrims, drovers, pedlars and tramps, and passengers in stage coaches and wagons, as well as the essential infrastructure of bridges and inns. The Derbyshire Portway is explored as an example of an ancient route which was old before the Romans arrived, but was used well into the eighteenth century, and one that can still be followed today. A detailed walking guide, fully illustrated with maps and photos, is provided for the sixty-plus miles of its route, from the River Trent, near Nottingham, to deep into the Dark Peak.
Road Transport Before the Railways
| Author | : Dorian Gerhold |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1993-02-26 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521419505 |
This 1993 book examines the road haulage trade in England when it depended on horses and wagons, chiefly through the letters and papers of one of the largest firms which operated between the West Country and London in the early nineteenth century. Other documents extend the coverage of the firm's history from the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, making it possible to examine how road transport changed during the course of two centuries. The Russell letters are all extraordinary and unique survival, showing in detail how the firm managed to convey up to six tons at a time in all weathers, how dominated it was by the capabilities and needs of the horse, how reliable its services were, who it served and how important it was to a variety of users. In sum the book provides a full account of the road haulage industry from the seventeenth century until the coming of the railways.
Sociable Knowledge
| Author | : Elizabeth Yale |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2016-02-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0812247817 |
Sociable Knowledge reconstructs the collaborations of seventeenth-century naturalists who, dispersed across city and country, worked through writing, conversation, and print to convert fragmented knowledge of the hyper-local and curious into an understanding and representation of Britain as a unified historical and geographical space.
The Transport Revolution 1770-1985
| Author | : Dr Philip Bagwell |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 501 |
| Release | : 1988-09-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134985010 |
An updated version of this classic book which includes an examination of transport developments since 1974, and particularly those of the Thatcher era.
The Rise and Rise of Road Transport, 1700-1990
| Author | : Theodore Cardwell Barker |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 1995-09-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521557733 |
Most books about Britain's transport history have concentrated upon canals and railways. It is now clear that a great deal of traffic went by road even before turnpikes, and that goods as well as passenger services were much more highly developed than used to be supposed. This book is an important survey of road transport over the past three centuries. The authors summarise the new evidence and arguments and explain why we need to take a longer view of the subject. They shed new light on the importance of horse-drawn freight in the eighteenth century before the introduction of turnpikes, offset the undue attention paid to the railways in the nineteenth century, and stress that motor transport's present great importance only dates from the 1950s. A full bibliography is provided for more extended study.
Packmen, Carriers and Packhorse Roads
| Author | : David Hey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2004-06 |
| Genre | : Freight and freightage |
| ISBN | : 9781843061328 |
This title is an historical study of old Peak District roads - what they were used for and why.
Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution
| Author | : Rick Szostak |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1991-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0773562931 |
Szostak develops a model that establishes causal links between transportation and industrialization and shows how improvements in transportation could have a beneficial effect on an economy such as that of eighteenth-century England. This model shows the Industrial Revolution to involve four primary phenomena: increased regional specialization, the emergence of new industries, an expanding scale of production, and an accelerated rate of technological innovation. Through detailed analysis, Szostak explicates the effects of the different systems of transportation in France and England on the four components of the Industrial Revolution. He outlines the development in late eighteenth-century England of a reliable system of all-weather transportation, made up of turnpike roads and canals, that was far superior to the system in France at the same period. He goes on to examine in detail the iron, textile, and pottery industries in each country, focusing on the effect of the quality of available transportation on the decisions of individual entrepreneurs and innovators. Szostak shows that in every case these industries were more highly developed in England than in France.
Trade and Banking in Early Modern England
| Author | : Eric Kerridge |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Banks and banking |
| ISBN | : 9780719026539 |
The Bridges of Medieval England
| Author | : David Featherstone Harrison |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0199272743 |
Medieval bridges are startling achievements of civil engineering, which prove the importance of road transport and the sophistication of the medieval economy. The Bridges of Medieval England rewrites their history, offering new insights into many aspects of the subject. It has profound implications for our understanding of pre-industrial economy and society, challenging accepted accounts of the development of medieval trade and communications and showing continuities from the Anglo-Saxon period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
