In Search Of Medieval Britain

Art historian and University of Kent professor Alixe Bovey retraces a series of old roads in Britain, using the Gough Map, the oldest surviving route map of Great Britain. Believed to have been drawn between 1355 and 1366, the map illustrates one of the earliest road networks of England. Following the roads as they were at that time, she makes stops in the West Country, Scotland, the Heartlands, and London and the South East. She also visits Wales and follows the trail from York to the hotly contested Scottish border. … MORE