East and West of Severn by CV Hancock, 1956, Vintage Illustrated Travel / Topography Hardback

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East and West of Severn by CV Hancock, 1956, published by Faber and Faber, London. Hardback, 200 pages.

'illustrated with drawings by Dennis Flanders and J. Porteous Wood, and photographs by the author.'

This vintage topography hardback is beautifully illustrated with black and white drawings and photos.
It is in good condition - the original dust-jacket has some discolouration along the spine and has some small tears and creases along the edges. Inside the front flysheet has a small date stamp. Otherwise there is no writing, tearing, creasing or dog-earing.

21.5cm x 16cm x 2cm approx.

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Blurb reads:
The English Midlands in general are as little, or just as much, "sodden and unkind", to quote Hilaire Belloc's strictures, as his own Sussex by the Sea is clammy with Channel fogs. The Midland countryside is rich in landscape, architecture and unexploited charm. CV Hancock is a collector of such Midland riches. Going always on foot, he has sought them here and there, on both sides of Severn, over a region extending from the Cotswolds to Dovedale and from the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border to the Borderland of Wales.
This is a book of byways, not of main roads; of villages, not of towns; of the lesser - and less advertised - precious stones, not of celebrated jewels such as Compton Wynates and Stokesay Castle. It passes Dovedale by, in order to visit Beresford Dale.
Though the choice of riches is eclectic, it is not narrow. There is much about old churches, of course, for the village church often is, apart from all else, the local storehouse of beauty and historic interest, the epitome of the life of the place for centuries. But the author's interest is as readily stirred by a deserted canal or a branch railway line whose last train has gone.

Contents:
Pastoral Heart
Feckenham Forest
In Shakespeare's Land
Winchcombe and Windrush
Charles Cotton's Country
The 'Shroppie' and Tong
Under Titterstone Clee
The Forest of Morfe
Teme Valley
Half Round the Wrekin
Onny, Clun and Corve
In the Marches

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