"Real book" resources

Paper still has a place in the internet-enabled age !

The listing is grouped into

Here we list some books that may be useful to GLASS members.
You can try to get your library to source them, or try the usual bookshop sources such as Waterstones or Amazon.

See also the Map Room section for cartographic books

For some books we have provided extracts; please bear in mind the copyright issues.

Rights of Way & "technical" books

Author	Title & notes	ISBN	published	link to extracts or comments
J.Riddall & J.Trevelyan	Rights of Way A guide to law and practice the "Blue Book"	1 901184 45 5	3rd ed. 2001 OSS & Ramblers Assoc.
Glen	The Law relating to Highways		1883	extracts
Shelford	Law of Highways		1862	extracts
H.W.Woolrych	'Laws of Ways' properly titled- Treatise of the law of ways including highways, turnpike roads and tolls, private rights of way, bridges and ferries with the Law of Prescription Act, and of railways as far as they relate to highways and turnpike roads sounds useful?		2nd ed., 1847 William Benning, London
	The Complete Parish Officer guide to duties & powers of the Surveyor of Highways		16th ed. 1772 Strahan & Woodfall	extract (5.07 MB) extracts (5Mb)
Jacob	New Law Dictionary a guide to contemporary terms		5th ed. 1744 9th ed. 1772	extracts

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Roads Research books

Author	Title & notes	ISBN	published	link to extracts or comments
Tim Stevens	Road Research - An Introduction to Rights of Way Evidence. How to do the research		LARA
Susan Taylor	What is a Cross-road? explores the meaning of term over 300 years	0 9530573 0 5	South Pennine Packhorse Trails Trust	blurb & availability
R.J.P.Kain & Richard Oliver	The Tithe Maps of England & Wales A Cartographic analysis and county by county catalogue	0 521 44191 9	1995 University of Cambridge
R.J.P.Kain & Hugh C. Prince	The Tithe Surveys of England & Wales one of the 'Camb. studies in Historical Geography' series	0 521 24681 4	1985 University of Cambridge
W.E. Tate	Domesday of English Enclosure Acts & Awards 'a guide to location of ... awards'

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Engineering

Author	Title & notes	ISBN	published	link to extracts or comments
Australian Road Research Board	Unsealed Roads Manual modern build & maint		ARRB	blurb & availability
John M Morris	Earth Roads		1995 Avebury
Jack Hindson	Earth Roads		1983 IT Publications
Collins & Hart	Principles of Road Engineering		1936
Thomas Codrington	The Maintenance of Macadamised Roads (pre-tarmac road repair)		1892	extracts
Henry Law & Kinnear Clark	The Construction of Roads and Streets		1887
Henry Law	The Construction of Common Roads		1855

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Old roads & routes

Author	Title & notes	ISBN	published	link to extracts or comments
V. Belsey	The Green Lanes of England		1998 Green Books, Totnes
William Taylor	The Military Roads in Scotland	1899863087	1996 House of Lochar
A.R.B. Haldane	The Drove Roads of Scotland	1874744769	1952 rep.1996 Birlinn Ltd
A.R.B. Haldane	New Ways through the Glens	1899863052	1995 House of Lochar
Alan Kind	The Old Roads of Britain: Alston Moor, Hartside and Geltsdale		Hodology
Heather Hurley	The Old Roads of S. Herefordshire
Edward Thomas	The Icknield Way		1916 Constable & co.

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History books

Author	Title & notes	ISBN	published	link to extracts or comments	library copy
Theo Barker & Dorian Gerhold	The rise and rise of road transport, 1700-1990 (The first chapters give details of the methods, volumes and importance of road haulage before and during the railway era.)	0-521-55773-9	1993 Cambridge University Press
John Copeland	Roads and their traffic 1750-1850		1968 David & Charles Ltd	picture excerpt featuring Big Waggons!
Oliver Rackham	The History of the Countryside (The 'Highways' chapter in particular is full of very usful info.)	0-460-04449-4	1986 J M Dent & Sons		extract
J.L. and Barbara Hammond	The Village Labourer 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (covers impact of inclosure etc.)	n/a	3rd ed. 1920		full text
W.T.Jackman	The Development of Transportation in modern England (more an economic than technical study)	n/a	1916 rep.1962 Cambridge University Press
Sidney & Beatrice Webb	The Story of the Kings Highway		1913
Samuel Smiles	The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer, with an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain.	n/a	1867	full text e-book version	(608.54 KB)