Martin Cook Shire Publications Ltd. ISBN 0 7478 0384 6
"Medieval Bridges" covers another necessary aspect of any road network in rainy and river crossed England. No Roman bridges remain intact, and only hints of medieval (or Tudor) bridges made of timber, but quite a number of medieval stone bridges remain in use to this day, as they and others clearly were in Tudor times . . . quite a tribute to the masons who designed and built them over five hundred years ago. This book discusses, among other details, those masons, the "masons' lodges" which housed them as they traveled from job to job, and the funding mechanisms which paid their wage, as well as considerable detail concerning architectural "style" (often similar to, except in sheer bulk, and clearly derived from, Church construction of their day). We're talking major structures here, many today carrying motor cars and trucks where once carts and wagons rolled. 37 pictures; several maps; bibliography and guide.