The A303: Highway to the Sun

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What we got was a lot of plain-clothes policemen hanging around waiting for someone to ring them with a tip-off before nipping off to Victoria coach station to pick up a man wanted for murder abroad who was saying goodbye to his girlfriend. We try to add new providers constantly but we couldn't find an offer for "A303: Highway to the Sun" online. Some of the A303 is far older than the A30, with some Roman and other parts possibly starting off anything up to a million years ago as a migratory route for wild beasts preferring to spend winter in the "Devon Riviera" than the cold wastes of mainland europe, by medieval times the A30 route was the London - Exeter Route. The A303 is one of the essential routes of English motoring, promising to whisk the traveller towards the green and honeyed lands of Somerset and the far west to a world of holidays and escape (although these journeys all too often grind to a standstill. This is nothing more than a vanity project, which would be a complete waste of time and money, and would create far more problems and confusion than it would solve.

Wincanton is one of the few towns to be twinned with a fictional place, Ankh-Morpork from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.This look at the historical sites along the A303, a road stretching from the south-east to the south-west of Britain, connecting right through to Exeter in Devon, had fascinating potential: ancient and modern sites compete for attention on both sides of the road, that befit close attention. His object is to reveal the special beauty of the landscape, particularly Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge (pictured).

Fort's book is also a meditation on the motor car itself: is it a force for darkness or for liberation? If the producers had set out to show that, contrary to what the public may think, catching serious criminals on the run from abroad is actually pretty boring, then they couldn't have done a better job.If there was much thinking, that is, for it wasn't entirely clear that Fort had any definite shape to his film in mind before he started pottering along the main road from Andover in Hampshire to just outside Honiton in Devon in a ropey old Morris Minor van – very BBC4 – and stopping at various places that caught his fancy. Ancient woods lay across the summits of the downs and prehistoric monuments and sites are everywhere, the evidence of ancient habitation and worship left in abundance. What, therefore, rather disappointed me was the lack of emotion and human feeling in his account of its geography and history. There's an abundance of information nuggets in this book, plotting an in depth history of the people and events along this 90 mile stretch of southern England. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition.

He was very pleased and intrigued to receive it as a Christmas gift, and looked forward to reading it. A nostalgic experience, informative, humorous, charming, but pervaded by the bitter-sweet scent of regret' Daily Mail'Fort has an eye for the quirky, the absurd, the pompous and a style that, like the road, is always on the move' Sunday Telegraph'A lovely book. The experts assumed an inferior position; Fort either interrupted them or responded to their observations with gales of forced laughter. Despite its recent update (which mourns the passing of the once-ubiquitous Little Chefs, for example), it still shows some signs of becoming dated.

In it, Tom Fort drives the length of the A303 road from Basingstoke in Hampshire to Honiton in Devon. To my delight, therefore, this is my story, the surprise and joy being that it contains so much I didn’t know. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day. I'm not aware of huge numbers of people getting terminally lost around Newcott because the A30 turns off to the right and they don't. Part travelogue, part social history, part political commentary, but the author’s style is pleasant without being patronising.

It's a history too, and that's interweaved with the landmarks and brought to life with some very interesting potted biographies. Even notwithstanding my two points above, and assuming that your other suggestions went ahead, this makes no sense at all! A road I drove many times between 1987 and 2015,originally related to my then gliding club and then latterly because my last job was at Boscombe Down Airfield within spitting distance of the 'Ancestor' statue at Solstice Business Park.The last major road renumbering that I can think of was the A14, which coincided with significant stretches of new and improved road, effectively making a new route to the Midlands that took in sections of several old roads. I shall be travelling along/over the A303 for the first time in my life next week as I need to go to Salisbury for the first time ever. And yes, I do realise the irony in that statement in that the former route has pretty well always been the more important yet never had the same number throughout!