The Motor Routes of England: Western Section - Gordon Home

As in the previous volumes of this series, I am greatly indebted to the Secretary of the Touring Department of the Royal Automobile Club for his exceedingly kind assistance in working out the routes. They are planned on the accumulated experience of a great many members of the club, who have placed their knowledge at the disposal of their fellow-members.

My experience of the Daimler 38 h.-p. car in which we toured through the greater part of Wales and the adjoining English counties was, as before, entirely satisfactory. We never had to give a thought to the running of the car in the hundreds of miles of mountainous roads we traversed.

Although the route maps accompanying the text are generally sufficient for all the ordinary needs of the touring motorist, I do not think it desirable to travel without the sheets of Bartholomew's half-an-inch-to-the-mile reduced survey maps. The coloured contours are of such service in showing the chief features of the surrounding country that I always feel happier with them. The sheets required for this book are numbered 8, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30.

I have been asked by those who have used the previous volumes of this series to give a list of hotels, and in that printed at the end of this book I give the names of those hotels I can recommend. I shall be exceedingly grateful to any reader who discovers any inaccuracies in this book if he will be kind enough to let me hear of them.

GORDON HOME.

43, Gloucester Street,
Warwick Square,
London, S.W.
May 1, 1911.

TRUNK ROUTE
SECTION	PAGE
I.	London to Dunstable, 32 Miles		[1]
II.	Dunstable to Atherstone, 72½ Miles		[18]
III.	Atherstone to Shrewsbury, 59 Miles		[29]
LOOP No. 1
	(a)	Shrewsbury to Chester, 39½ Miles	[38]
	(b)	Chester to Mold and Rhyl, 35½ Miles	[52]
	(c)	Rhyl to Shrewsbury, 86½ Miles	[61]
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IV.	Shrewsbury to Llandudno, 81½ Miles		[75]
V.	Llandudno to Bangor, 18¾ Miles		[89]
LOOP No. 2
	Bangor to Bettws-y-Coed, 20¼ Miles		[98]
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VI.	Bangor to Dolgelley, 65¾ Miles		[103]
LOOP No. 3
	Dolgelley to Cemmaes via Tal-y-Llyn, 40 Miles		[119]
LOOP No. 4
	Cemmaes to Aberystwyth and Llangurig,49¾ Miles		[127]
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VII.	Dolgelley to Llangurig, 48¼ Miles		[134]
LOOP No. 5
	(a)	Talgarth to St. David's, 117¼ Miles	[142]
	(b)	St. David's to Hereford, 132¼ Miles	[162]
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VIII.	Llangurig to Abergavenny, 68 Miles		[180]
IX.	Abergavenny to Gloucester, 84¼ Miles		[189]
LOOP No. 6
	(a)	Hereford to Shrewsbury, 54¾ Miles	[219]
	(b)	Shrewsbury to Hereford, 81¼ Miles	[232]
LOOP No. 7
	Gloucester to Bath, Malmesbury, Evesham,Tewkesbury, and Gloucester, 153 Miles		[243]
TRUNK ROUTE
X.	Gloucester to Oxford, 50 Miles		[269]
LOOP No. 8
	Oxford to Stratford-on-Avon, Coventry, Banbury,and Oxford, 110 Miles		[280]
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XI.	Oxford to London, 67½ Miles		[305]
	Table of the Sovereigns of England, the ChiefEvents of their Reigns, and the ArchitecturalPeriods		[320]
	A List of Motor-Car Signs		[323]
	A List of Hotels		[326]
	Index		[327]

Note.—Anyone wishing to plan a tour including the West of England and Wales will find that this book joins with the Southern Section volume at Bath and Windsor, and the large maps at the end of the books will show other points between those places where the motorist can run from one book into the other with only the slightest gap.

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