Village Walks in Britain

by The Automobile Association (Great Britain), Roger Smith (Editor)

Overview

Here are short tours—most take a half-hour to one or two hours—of 165 villages of unusual interest, beauty, and charm.

They fall into six regions: the West Country; South and Southeast England; Central England and East Anglia; the North Country; Wales; and Scotland.

Richly illustrated with color photographs, the book features route descriptions and large-scale Ordnance Survey maps with the highly detailed information that makes tours easy and practical.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393315028
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	11/17/1996
Series:	AA Guides
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 11.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

The Automobile Association (Great Britain) has been publishing travel guides since around 1910; and by 1929 they were issuing 239,000 routes a year. In 2003 this number had risen to a staggering 32 million. The AA (Great Britain) has always produced routes and travel guides, a business activity that has grown rapidly in recent years – AA Publishing is now the UK's largest travel publisher, producing more than 8 million books in 2003. Begining in 1912 the AA also started to inspect hotels, and those receiving the AA's famous star classification were included in subsequent editions of the Members' Handbook. Today the association inspects and rates more than 8,000 hotels and bed and breakfast establishments each year and review almost 2,000 restaurants, publishing the results in a series of annual guides.

Roger Smith has written for television and films since the early sixties; his screenplays include Up the Junction. He has worked with Ken Loach as a script consultant for the past fifteen years and is also a theater director. He is the author of Tycoonery and Inhibition: History and Meaning in the Sciences of Mind and Brain.