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Avoncliff - The Secret History of an Industrial Hamlet in War and Peace

By Nick McCamley

A thoroughly researched, well written and truly fascinating account of this diminutive Wiltshire community situated on the River Avon, Kennet and Avon Canal and Railway between Bradford on Avon and Bath. Particularly strong on social and industrial history.

Published 2004
ISBN 1 903341 23 X

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Ex Libris Press

    


The Railway

Avoncliff Halt



Avoncliff Halt shortly after it opened in 1906. The bridge that
carried the railway over the ford is in the centre of the view.

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