Bridport and West Bay - The Buildings of the Flax and Hemp Industry

Informationen zum Autor Author and Investigator at Historic England. Klappentext Bridport is an industrial market town on the west Dorset coast which has played a pivotal role in the region's hemp and flax industry for over 700 years. The industrial heritage of this town is not widely known outside the area and very little has been published on the regional and national significance of Bridport. Zusammenfassung Bridport is the home of an ancient industry, the manufacture of goods from flax and hemp. The local townscapes of this industry are of great historic significance and provide the building blocks for the regeneration of its historic industrial areas.

Product details

• Authors: Mike Williams, Mike (Historic England (United Kingdom)) Williams
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2006
• EAN: 9781873592861
• ISBN: 978-1-873592-86-1
• No. of pages: 68
• Series: Informed Conservation
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture