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Title: British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car
Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England,
Wales And Scotland

Author: Thomas D. Murphy

Release Date: December 13, 2005 [EBook #17297]

Language: English

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[Illustration: OLD HALF-TIMBERED HOUSES IN LEDBURY.

From Water Color by B. McGuinness.]

British Highways
and Byways
From a Motor Car

BEING A RECORD OF A FIVE THOUSAND MILE TOUR IN ENGLAND, WALES AND
SCOTLAND

BY

Thos. D. Murphy

With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour and Thirty-two Duogravures From
Photographs; Also Two Descriptive Maps.

BOSTON
L.C. Page & Company
MDCCCCVIII

_Copyright_, 1908
BY L.C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

_All rights reserved_

A FOREWORD

In this chronicle of a summer's motoring in Britain I have not attempted
a guide-book in any sense, yet the maps, together with the comments on
highways, towns, and country, should be of some value even in that
capacity. I hope, however, that the book, with its many illustrations
and its record of visits to out-of-the way places, may be acceptable to
those who may desire to tour Britain by rail or cycle as well as by
motor car. Nor may it be entirely uninteresting to those who may not
expect to visit the country in person but desire to learn more of it and
its people. Although our journey did not follow the beaten paths of
British touring, and while a motor car affords the most satisfactory
means of reaching most of the places described, the great majority of
these places are accessible by rail, supplemented in some cases by a
walk or drive. A glance at the maps will indicate the large scope of
country covered and the location of most places especially mentioned in
the text.

It was not a tour of cities by any means, but of the most delightful
country in the world, with its towns, villages, hist