Buckinghamshire

This completely new edition reveals a county of contrasts. The semi-rural suburbia of outer-Outer London, with its important early Modern Movement houses, is counterbalanced by magnificent mansions and parks, like idyllic Stowe and the Rothschilds' extravaganza at Waddesdon. The Saxon Church at Wing, the exquisite seventeenth-century Winslow Hall, and Slough's twentieth-century factories all contribute to Buckinghamshire's rich inheritance. In this new edition, the unspoilt centres of small towns, like Amersham and Buckingham, are revisited and Milton Keynes, Britain's last and most ambitious New Town, is explained and explored. The rich diversity of rural buildings, built of stone, brick, timber, and even earth, is investigated with scholarship and discrimination. This accessible and comprehensive guide is prefaced by an illuminating introduction and has many excellent illustrations, plans and maps.

ISBN 0300095848   Pages 832 ISBN13 9780300095845 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 918 Publisher Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Imprint Yale University Press   Series title Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England Format Hardback   Height (mm) 180 Publication date 01 Jan 1994   Width (mm) 120 DEWEY 720.94259   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

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