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jimit J
jimit Sep 1, 2007 07:38:23

...an author called R. Hippi(e)sley Cox? Last night I was given a copy of his "Where Green Roads Meet..... A Guide to Avebury" Published 1929 by Swindon Press. Foreword by Lord Avebury. Loads of descriptions of green roads, barrows and earthworks in the area, some of which I've never heard of.
In the forward (Rev F.W.Clifford) It says that this book is "An expansion of Chap 1 of The Green Roads of England" and that the present book is long out of print. The author must have died some time previously as his widow hopes that a " Fellowship of the green roads" might be inaugurated in his memory.
Only a small book, 55p, but full of detail, maps and some line drawings and may take some time to take in fully.
Jim.

M moss
moss Sep 1, 2007 08:03:08
Replying to jimit

I got it from the library Jim....he's got a Silbury theory ;) if I remember, Silbury was a shadow hill, so that if you put a pole on top of the hill it would cast a shadow - and tell the time of the day? I liked his little sketches of the hillforts along the Ridgeway...

L Lefturn
Lefturn Sep 1, 2007 14:13:25
Replying to jimit

There is a famous exchange involved with one of his books. When published Cox had a long running row with the editor of the local newspaper. A Devizes paper I think. Anyway, it went on for weeks and got very nasty, the length of the exchanages were extraordinary and ran to great detail. The editor won out of course as it was his paper!