Cross Country English Buildings and Landscape From Countryside to Coast

Spliced together with personal reminiscence and local anecdote, Cross Country is a truly unique look at both the familiar and unfamiliar in England. Peter Ashley brings to the book an extensive knowledge of buildings and a recognized ability to describe them, and the landscape they inhabit, with wit and passion, providing a warm and intriguing view of the England we all love. The book is organized by region, covering the Chilterns, the South East, East Anglian Coast, Dorset, the Welsh Borders, Northumberland, Northern Hills, the Cotswolds, Dartmoor, and High Leicestershire.

Peter Ashley is the author and photographer of Unmitigated England and More from Unmitigated England. He edited Railway Rhymes for the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series and collaborated with Philip Wilkinson on books accompanying the BBC Restoration programmes, as well as The English Buildings Book, the ultimate guide to building types. In June 2009, he published his first book with John Wiley & Sons, Built for Britain: From Bridges to Beach Huts.