Carnegie Publishing, 2002, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, First, Inscribed by Author

Maroon cloth with dustwrapper, inscribed by the author on endpaper. in almost as new condition - The book starts with the Bronze Age, how the settlement changed with the Roman Invasions and Viking raids , how the village grew and altered through history and for a single day in the middle of the seventeenth century took pride of place when Cromwell's army defeated the massed Royalist armies at the battle of Preston on the 17th August 1648. Marvelously illustrated with photographs and maps. Size: Quarto. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Category: Travel & Places; Britain/UK; Modern; Inscribed by Author.