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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> For historians of Watchet and Bridgwater the Victoria County History has expertly covered the key facts concerning the development of these harbours: by including material from the earliest times up until the late twentieth century they contain an invaluable framework to draw upon for further research. Here in this volume can be found a collection of studies that have expanded on aspects of those carlier works. Written by historians of very different backgrounds from different walks of life all the studies have a common theme and purpose ie to bring into print new aspects of Somerset’s maritime history. A particular theme apart from the maritime one which underpins all of these studies is that of trade. This is not however a volume exclusively on the economic history of Somerset but nevertheless a contribution to a subject that will benefit from the detailed research brought to light in this book. The research for these papers into national and local records painstakingly pieces together elements of that now long lost maritime world. Elements of that once flourishing maritime trade which existed into the twentieth century can also be found in this volume and are now happily brought to a wider audience. (SP)