Walking with the Famous and Infamous Guidebook

by: Roger Seedhouse
The beautiful county of Shropshire has many claims to fame, not least through the many colourful historical characters who either lived or had strong local associations there. In this unique book Roger presents fifteen walks that will take you through the areas where they lived, worked, died or acted out the events for which they have become renowned, while at the same time relating the principal events of their lives. In an original and distinctive style they are written through the characters' own eyes, as if they were telling their own stories, bringing both the walks and the characters alive. Meet Clive of India, Abraham Darby IV, Charles Darwin, Caractacus, Thomas Telford, Wild Edric, Hanging Judge Jeffreys, Mad Jack Mytton, Ippikin and Wild Humphrey Kynaston.

If, while walking, you have come across Wild Edric's Way, or the Jack Mytton Way, have marvelled at the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct or the Iron Bridge, struggled up Caer Caradoc, or wondered about the truth of Kynaston's Leap, this book will provide you with an intriguing insight into the legends and the truths.
The walk locations are: Moreton Say; Lydbury North; Bromfield; Coalbrookdale; Shrewsbury; Maer; Church Stretton; Chirk; Norbury; Clun; Wem; Whittington; Presthope near Much Wenlock; Nesscliffe.

ISBN 9781869922467 Pages 128 (2002) 144mm x 229mm