In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. With b/w photographic plates. With map at back and diagrams in text.. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; In removable plastic cover. Small marks to back. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. One of a set of books describing some of the identifiable regions of Britain. This volume covers The Mendips. Three writers have pooled their knowledge and experience to give an readable and comprehensive account of this upland region of Somerset. They descibe its early trackways, ancient barrows, lead workings, magnificent cliffs and caves, stately church towers and picturesque villages. Chapters cover Stone Age, Lead mining, Caving, Steep Holme, Royal Forest, Cheddar, Farming, cheese, strawberries, coal. Includes, Measbury Camp, Banwell Cave, Burrington Combe, Priddy, Nine Barrows, Wookey hole, King John, Chewton Mendip, Banwell, Frome, Dinder, Wells, Cheddar Gorge, and much more.

BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY The Regional Books, A.W. COYSH, E.J.MASON, V.WAITE, The Mendips, Somerset, trackways, ancient barrows, lead workings, cliffs, caves,church towers, villages, Stone Age, Lead mining, Caving, Steep Holme, Royal Forest, Cheddar, Farming, cheese, strawberries, coal, Measbury Camp, Banwell Cave, Burrington Combe, Priddy, Nine Barrows, Wookey hole, King John, Chewton Mendip, Banwell, Frome, Dinder, Wells, Cheddar Gorge, dustwrapper History Topography