'A nostalgic experience informative humorous charming but pervaded by the bitter-sweet scent of regret' Daily Mail The A303 is more than a road. It is a story. One of the essential routes of English motoring & the road of choice to the West Country for thousands of holidaymakers the A303 recalls a time when the journey was an adventure & not simply about getting there. Tom Fort gives voice to the stories this road has to tell from the bluestones of Stonehenge to Roman roads & drovers paths to turnpike tollhouses mad vicars wicked Earls & solstice seekers the history geography & culture of this road tells a story of an English way of life. ' Fort has an eye for the quirky the absurd the pompous & a style that like the road is always on the move' Sunday Telegraph 'A lovely book... At last someone has celebrated the romance of the British road' Guardian