Daventry Past
by R. L. Greenall
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1860771084
- ISBN 13
- 9781860771088
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chichester: Phillimore. Very Good/Good. 1999. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 1860771084 Dust jacket unclipped, tear to front cover. Original cloth with bright gilt titling on spine scratched. Front end papers map. Frontis. 96 illustrations. xii, 132 pages clean and tight. Daventry was an Anglo-Saxon rural settlement which existed from the late ninth or early 10th century. A substantial village with a priest by the time of Domesday Book, within thirty years a Cluniac Priory was established and Daventry eventually became a market town. To this day it retains its position as the shopping centre for the surrounding district. ...beautifully illustrated and thoroughly researched .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 146027
- Title
- Daventry Past
- Author
- R. L. Greenall
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1860771084
- ISBN 13
- 9781860771088
- Publisher
- Phillimore
- Place of Publication
- Chichester
- Date Published
- 1999
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
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