| [VALLE CRUCIS ABBEY] | Frontispiece |
| FACING PAGE |
| [LUDLOW CASTLE] | 4 |
| [THE FEATHERS HOTEL, LUDLOW] | 5 |
| [TUDOR DOORWAY, LUDLOW CASTLE] | 6 |
| [THE ROUND CHAPEL, LUDLOW CASTLE] | 7 |
| [ENTRANCE TO HALL IN WHICH “COMUS” WAS FIRST PERFORMED] | 10 |
| [STOKESAY CASTLE] | 11 |
| [OLD STREET IN SHREWSBURY] | 22 |
| [RICHARD BAXTER’S HOUSE, EATON CONSTANTINE] | 23 |
| [BUILDWAS ABBEY] | 28 |
| [MADELEY COURT] | 29 |
| [HAUGHMOND ABBEY] | 38 |
| [WENLOCK PRIORY, ST. JOHN’S CHAPEL] | 39 |
| [WENLOCK PRIORY, CHAPTER HOUSE] | 42 |
| [BISHOP PERCY’S BIRTHPLACE, BRIDGNORTH] | 43 |
| [WHITTINGTON CASTLE] | 64 |
| [THE LLEDR VALLEY, FROM THE HOLYHEAD ROAD] | 65 |
| [THE OLD CHAPEL, BETTWS-Y-COED] | 82 |
| [THE LLUGWY AT BETTWS-Y-COED] | 83 |
| [CONWAY CASTLE] | 90 |
| [THE PASS OF NANT FFRANCON] | 91 |
| [THE MENAI BRIDGE, FROM ANGLESEY] | 102 |
| [CARNARVON CASTLE] | 103 |
| [DOLBADARN CASTLE] | 106 |
| [SNOWDON, FROM CAPEL CURIG] | 107 |
| [NEAR BEDD GELERT] | 120 |
| [GATEWAY OF HARLECH CASTLE] | 121 |
| [THE MAWDDACH, FROM TYN-Y-GROES HOTEL] | 134 |
| [LLANIDLOES] | 135 |
| [ARCHWAY AT STRATA FLORIDA] | 148 |
| [NEAR GLANDOVEY] | 149 |
| [THE MAYOR’S HOUSE, MACHYNLLETH] | 156 |
| [THE RIVER DULAS] | 157 |
| [THE PASS OF CORRIS, NEAR TAL-Y-LLYN] | 158 |
| [BALA LAKE] | 159 |
| [CAERPHILLY CASTLE] | 172 |
| [BEAUPRÉ CASTLE] | 173 |
| [EWENNY PRIORY] | 180 |
| [NEATH ABBEY] | 181 |
| [BRECON] | 186 |
| [GATEWAY, KIDWELLY CASTLE] | 187 |
| [GOSCAR ROCK, TENBY] | 196 |
| [MANORBIER CASTLE, NEAR TENBY] | 197 |
| [ENTRANCE TOWER, PEMBROKE CASTLE] | 202 |
| [PEMBROKE COAST] | 203 |
| [CAREW CASTLE] | 208 |
| [ST. DAVID’S CATHEDRAL AND RUINS OF THE BISHOP’S PALACE] | 209 |
| [ST. MARY’S COLLEGE, ST. DAVID’S] | 212 |
| [ST. DAVID’S CATHEDRAL: INTERIOR] | 213 |
| [KILGERRAN CASTLE, NEAR CARDIGAN] | 222 |
| [THE WYE NEAR ITS SOURCE] | 223 |
| [CONFLUENCE OF THE WYE AND THE MARTEG NEAR RHAYADER] | 234 |
| [HEREFORD] | 235 |
| [THE PREACHING CROSS, HEREFORD] | 238 |
| [ROSS FROM WILTON] | 239 |
| [MONNOW BRIDGE, MONMOUTH] | 250 |
| [RAGLAN CASTLE, ENTRANCE TOWER] | 251 |
| [THE MOAT, RAGLAN CASTLE] | 254 |
| [LLANTHONY PRIORY] | 255 |
| [INTERIOR OF LLANTHONY PRIORY, SHOWING THE EAST END] | 258 |
| [TINTERN ABBEY] | 259 |
| [TINTERN ABBEY] | 266 |
| [CHEPSTOW CASTLE] | 267 |
Much of the material of this book has appeared in the Car Illustrated, and is here reproduced by the kind consent of Lord Montagu.
There was once a tramp who said—“Och, now, it’s true what I’m tellin’ ye; I never got a bit o’ good out o’ me life till I took to the road!”
He was quite serious about it. He was a nice tramp, with a fine sense of romance and a large trust in the future, and on this first day of the tour his words ring in my head above the rush of the wind and the throbbing of the engine. For though all the days will be good, this first day is surely the best. To be on the road again; to have one’s luggage behind one and all the world in front; to watch the villages slipping by and mark their changing character; to saunter through strange towns and swing across great, desolate moorlands; to pause at some attractive inn, or eat sandwiches and sunshine by the wayside—this is the first day. History and the camera must wait; the first day must be given up to the sheer joy of the road.