Surrey (O'Brien Charles)(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

A newly expanded volume on England's preeminent "Home County," exploring its mix of rural and urban architecture as well as its many major historic buildings Surrey is the preeminent "Home County." For centuries it has been the playground for London and its towns and villages home to thousands of its daily commuters by rail. Yet much of Surrey is still rural and rich in churches and timber-framed, tilehung cottages and farmhouses in landscapes saved more than a century ago by some of the earliest altruistic campaigns to protect from the spread of development. This revised edition, the first since 1971, revisits Surrey's major monuments such as Waverley Abbey and Farnham Castle but also extends its scope to a wide diversity of structures of the more recent past with greater appreciation of the twentieth century, from Modernist villas to Guildford's Cathedral and
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