The Mallaig Extension was approved in 1894 to provide a continuation of the West Highland route for the benefit of the fishing industry on Scotland's west coast. It revived more ambitiously the Fort William to Roshven line lost in 1889. With controversial state aid in place construction began in 1897 & the Extension was opened in 1901. Steam was reintroduced on the line in 1984 & the Jacobite service to Mallaig is now a major tourist attraction. Crossing the famous Glenfinnan viaduct the line touches Loch Eilt Loch Ailort Loch-nan-Uamh Arisaig & Morar giving wonderful views of the coastline & the Small Isles. In this book a companion to his volume on the West Highland Line Dr John Mc Gregor uses a wide selection of period & modern photographs to bring the history & dramatic landscape of the Mallaig Extension to life for the reader. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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The Shell Guides to the counties of England were first published in the 1930s under the illustrious editorship of John Betjeman & later the artist John Piper. Today the various editions are collectors items with rarer volumes selling for hundreds of pounds. But the series was never completed & is no longer in print. Now the first in a new series the Heritage Shell Guides covers the cities towns & villages of West Yorkshire
- a part of the country never featured previously. With the same iconic mix of text & black & white photography this is an enthusiasts guide that celebrates well-known landmarks & hidden gems alike. Contemporary buildings appear alongside historic churches & period architecture; urban landscapes alongside rural vistas. In a new style departure this also

Includes:: a colour plate section in addition to the 200-plus photographs throughout. A true celebration of local place & character this is deserving of a place in every home library & school.


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This is the Sustrans cycle routes map in the Discover" series detailing the National Cycle Network & other routes in West Yorkshire. Amongst other highlights the map shows the West Yorkshire Cycle Route & parts of the Way of the Roses Trans Pennine Trail & Yorkshire Dales Cycleway. West Yorkshire is one of Britains great metropolitan heartlands with more than two million people living in its cities towns & villages. Over the last 25 years Sustrans has been working with local authorities & other partners to develop the National Cycle Network
- this map shows the progress made together with a multitude of other signed & recommended routes. Highlights are many but to show just how convenient & enjoyable riding your bike can be try the following: the Airedale Greenway through Saltaire World Heritage Site; the award winning Spen Valley Greenway between Bradford & Dewsbury; out of Harrogate on the new greenway across the Nidd Gorge; & on the Wyke Beck Way in Leeds. The map shows all the railway stations where you can catch a train with your bike or leave it parked safely. 15 inset city/town maps are shown for Ripon Harrogate York Keighley Halifax Shipley Hebden Bridge Holmfirth Selby Leeds Dewsbury Barnsley Bradford Huddersfield & Wakefield. It

Features: clearly mapped traffic-free & on-road National Cycle Routes & other cycle routes; detailed inset maps of towns & cities National Cycle Routes & linking routes; land profiles for the featured cycle routes; easy to read contours; Local Tourist Information Centre bike shop & hire centre details; & printed on waterproof paper."


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Cicely Fairfield was born in 1892 but as a young woman
- & a budding actress
- she changed her name to that of the feminist

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Navigation culture cuisine history & helpful advice for anyone cruising in these glorious waters. Rob Buttress West Aegean Cruising Companion is an authoritative guide intended to help you make the most of your visit to this region. Covering the Gulf of Volos the Sporades Islands & the Evian Gulf the book provides comprehensive pilotage & nautical information as well as suggestions of where to eat & what to do ashore. Also incorporating some practical tips for your passage planning along with a valuable insight into the history & culture of the area the book is enhanced with full colour charts & detailed photography including many spectacular aerial shots. Contents: * Introduction * Distance tables * Chart Symbols & lights * Chapter One Gulf of Volos * Chapter Two Trikeri & Orei Channels * Chapter Three Skiathos & Skopelos * Chapter Four The Outer Sporades * Chapter Five Skiros & Aegean Aevia * Chapter Six Petali Gulf * Chapter Seven The Aevian Gulfs * Glossary * Index ...

D/S Jimmy Suttle has finally tired of the relentless struggle against the rising tide of urban crime in Portsmouth. Surely a job in Major Crimes in the West Country will offer some respite? He finds a remote cottage nestled in a fold of Dartmoor & with his wife & two-year-old daughter heads West for what he is sure will be a saner existence. How wrong could he be? Soon he is investigating the murder of a long-distance rower in the small town of Exmouth. The man rowed in the same 5-man boat as a man who two years before dodged a murder charge when his wife went missing during a cross atlantic rowing challange. There had been tensions between the two. Has a killer killed again? As the job takes over Lizzie Suttle's wife is increasingly unhappy about the move. Trying to juggle family life with her own new job on a local paper isolated in a lonely cottage with a demanding toddler & struggling to make new friends Lizzie thought the whole point of the move was that she & Suttle could at least see more of each other. As his marriage frays at the edges & his first investigation becomes mired Suttle begins to feel the hills around their cottage crowding in the wind over the moors above ever chillier the waters ever greyer. He really has reached land's end... ...