The Suffolk Traveller

Step into Suffolk before the railways. Suffolk emerges in meticulous detail. John Kirby's The Suffolk Traveller is an antiquarian travel guide facsimile of one of the earliest and most important surveys of historic Suffolk county. Part road-book, part historic county gazetteer, it brings together English road distances, routes between market towns, and clear village and parish descriptions that still illuminate Suffolk local history today. Calm, precise and often unexpectedly vivid, Kirby's...