Talks on Turnpikes
The Powerpoint slides
for the following presentations have been saved;
- Turnpikes
in the Vale of White Horse,
given to Friends of Wantage Museum, Oxon
- Turnpikes
and Milestones around Oxford; given to Deddington Local History Group, Sept 2004
- Impact of Roads & Turnpikes on
landscape; given at the
W.S. Hoskins memorial day – The making of the
Berkshire landscape (50th
anniversary of publishing The Making of the English Landscape); Museum of
English Rural Life, Reading. Nov 2005.
- Restoration
of Milestone; given at
Roads - Annual Meeting of Association for Industrial Archaeology,
Ironbridge, April 2006.
- Turnpikes
and Milestones around Reading; given to Tadley and to Purley Local History Group, 2006
- Turnpikes
around Woodstock; given
to friends of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock;
April 2007
- Turnpike
Roads around Newtown , nr
Newbury; given to Newtown Parish Meeting, April 2007
- Turnpikes
and Coaches; given at
meeting of Wiltshire Industrial Archaeology Group, Devizes, Oct 2007
- Turnpikes
in Dorset; given to
Dorset Industrial Archaeology Group; April 2008.
- Turnpikes
– Channels for Improvement;
given at Newcomen Society, Bristol,
23rd March 2009.
To be Given
- Turnpikes
; to be given at South Petherton Local
History Group, 28th Oct 2009.
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