The A303: Highway to the Sun - Hardcover

Tom Fort

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857203282 ISBN 13: 9780857203281

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

The A303 is a one of the essential routes of English motoring, promising to whisk the traveller towards the green and honeyed lands of Somerset and the far west to a world of holidays and escape. But journeys embarked upon full of the joys of the season all too often grind into a standstill of rage and bitterness before Hampshire even gives way to Wiltshire. Four-and-a-half thousand years ago the bluestones of Stonehenge were conveyed west from the river Avon along a small section of its route. Roman roads crossed it and drovers' paths lie beneath it. Its route cuts across some of the finest chalkland in southern England. The views are huge, the hills wide and windswept. Ancient woods lay across the summits of the downs and prehistoric monuments and sites are everywhere, the evidence of ancient habitation and worship left in abundance.

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Fort was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1978 he joined the BBC in London where he worked in the BBC Radio newsroom for 22 years. He lives in South Oxfordshire with his wife and two of his children and has been travelling up and down the A303 for over five decades.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857203282
• ISBN 13: 9780857203281
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344